Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead, Brent Newton
Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead
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Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead

Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead, Brent Newton
Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead
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Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead

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Description

Taken during a relaxing evening at the Lake Afton Observatory west of Wichita. I was there to capture a fading Neowise at it set over the observatory dome but couldn't leave without giving my 50mm lens something to do as well.

Housekeeping:

- Darks, Flats calibration

- Registration & Stacking

- Crop

- DBE

- Luminance extracted for separate processing

Processing:

- Decon (L)

- LinearFit R, B to G, Channel recombine

- Photometric Color Calib, Magenta star script

- Rista TGVD, MMT

- ASH+Masked Stretch (Color), Masked Stretch+HT (Lum)

- LRGB Combine

- MorphTrans for Star Reduction

- Numerous Curves, Histogram changes, reduction in star saturation

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Rho Ophiuchi & the Blue Horsehead, Brent Newton

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Central USA