Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Vulpecula (Vul)  ·  Contains:  LBN 135  ·  NGC 6820  ·  NGC 6823  ·  PGC 2815607  ·  Sh2-86
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NGC 6823 and Sh2-86 (SHO), Linda
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NGC 6823 and Sh2-86 (SHO)

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NGC 6823 and Sh2-86 (SHO), Linda
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NGC 6823 and Sh2-86 (SHO)

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This is NGC 6823 in SHO with RGB stars though I don't think the RGB really add much when the image is border-to-border nebulosity, but we wasted a bunch of time acquiring them (probably 2-3 times what we needed) so I included them!

Processing was fairly typical for what I've been doing to emission nebulae lately:

Each S, H and O master:
blurXterminator
starXterminator
noiseXterminator
GHS (GH, linear, GH)

RGB:
channel combination (RGB)
GH (stretching for stars)
starXterminator extracting unscreened stars)

stars:
unsharp mask (very mild sharpening)

SHO:
channel combination (SHO)
histogram transform to align peaks
SCNR to remove the prevalent green hydrogen cast - 70 minimum neutral)
LHE (2 scales.- 75 and 30, both masked)
Curves (color - masked)
Curves (contrast)
Dark Structure Enhance script
pixel math in stars
(no MLT sharpening as the small scale LHE seemed to have enough of a sharpening-like effect - perhaps borderline too much)

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