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A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244), estabrook
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A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244)

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A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244)

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A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244).  I keep an extensive list of astrophotography targets that I'd like to capture--from the obvious to the obscure, the easy to the near-impossible (at least with my gear and in my location).  But for two years now, I neglected to put the Rosette on my list!  I was surely aware of it--in fact, I used it for the first test shots on my first EQ mount.  And I've seen beautiful renditions of it here on astrobin.  But it never made my list--until now.  Big, bright, and beautiful--this target was a sheer joy to capture and process, and the project went super smoothly.  Even my wife, who is not an astronomy enthusiast, was impressed: "It really looks like a rosette!" she exclaimed.

(Captured: C6, AM5, Hyperstar, ASI183MC Pro, IDAS NBX UHS filter, Optolong L-Pro Filter. Processed: AstroPixelProcessor, PixInsight, StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator).

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  • A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244), estabrook
    Original
  • A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244), estabrook
    B
  • A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244), estabrook
    C
  • Final
    A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244), estabrook
    E

B

Description: Decided on some additional ABE and DBE to flatten the background and minimize vignetting.

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C

Description: I broke the rules and ran the final (non-linear) image through BlurX--and I love it. Then I added a touch more saturation, because I cannot help myself.

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E

Description: The nebula looks fantastic, but BlurX did leave me with misshapen stars. So I ran BlurX on a starless version of the final image, and then added the stars again.

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A Night With The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244), estabrook