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Adrift on The Cosmic Reef in the LM sea, near Tarantula point., Brian Boyle
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Adrift on The Cosmic Reef in the LM sea, near Tarantula point.

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Adrift on The Cosmic Reef in the LM sea, near Tarantula point., Brian Boyle
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Adrift on The Cosmic Reef in the LM sea, near Tarantula point.

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Full moon at Speargrass Flat, so the weather cleared up.  Attempted to image the "Cosmic Reef" area just north of the Tarantula in the LMC.  Give it everything I had over 3 nights - 18 hours of integration.

After many hours of, and approaches to, post-processing, this is now the final result.  For now

H: 42 x 600 secs
S: 44 x 600 secs
O: 24 x 600 secs

Just for @Rob Calfee I have doubled down on the nautical theme.

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Description: A completely different post-processing approach. At least it looks a little better on my monitor.

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Description: A cropped version. Less might be more.

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Title: All new revision

Description: 2.5 years later, with more experience and the RCAstro tools...

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Description: Tighter crop on the reef region

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Adrift on The Cosmic Reef in the LM sea, near Tarantula point., Brian Boyle