LDN 1434 and the Little Scorpion Cluster (NGC 1342) in Perseus (Andy Brown)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: LBN 718 · LBN 719 · LBN 720 · LBN 721 · LDN 1434 · NGC 1342 · V0674 Per · V0733 Per · V0736 Per · V1017 Per · V1018 Per · V1019 Per · V1093 Per · VdB18

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LDN 1434 and the Little Scorpion Cluster (NGC 1342) in Perseus

Revision title: Reduce brightness & increase contrast

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LDN 1434 and the Little Scorpion Cluster (NGC 1342) in Perseus

Revision title: Reduce brightness & increase contrast

I'm starting to become addicted to capturing these dark, dusty nebulae and was lucky to have a few clear nights without the Moon last week. This started as a test for correcting tilt in my image train which I've made some progress on but still not perfect. I would like to add more data to this but I was happy to get a usable image with just 8h 30' of total integration time.

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Title: Improve stars and colour balance

Description: A friend kindly reprocessed my RGB stars with BlurXTerminator for me - what a huge improvement. I will be moving over to Pixinsight soon and BlurXTerminator will be added to my software inventory too.

Also tweaked the colour balance a little to remove the magenta tinge

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Title: Reduce brightness & increase contrast

Description: Used luminosity masks in Photoshop to selectively reduce the brightness and increase contrast

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Title: Reprocess

Description: A complete reprocess with the latest versions of RC Astro tools and improved stretching with GHS

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Title: Colour Balance

Description: Remove green tinge

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Processed with Photoshop
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Imaged with APT
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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7098214
PixInsight job	ZXMUY2BXW5J2PVAZ4P4JOIQ9C9YIEOTJ
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	03h36m04s.96
RA (top/left)	03h30m45s.30
RA (top/right)	03h45m36s.49
RA (bottom/right)	03h41m38s.68
RA (bottom/left)	03h26m27s.41

Dec (center)	+37°24′43″.8
Dec (top/left)	+35°47′20″.9
Dec (top/right)	+36°59′24″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+39°01′11″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+37°47′12″.9

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