Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020), Brent Newton
F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020)
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F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020)

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F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020), Brent Newton
F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020)
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F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020)

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PixInsight Pre-Processing:

- Darks, Flats, Bias Calibration

- Subframe Weighing, Star Align, Image Integration

- Comet Align, then Batch Process of STF, StarNet, reversal of STF to first remove stars, Image Integration

- Photoshop CS6 combination of first 10, 5, and single image into foreground of clouds

Processing:

- StarNet-assisted blending of stars back into Comet-aligned image

- No LFit or Color Calibration since sky was naturally blue due to twilight

- TGVD, MMT (Rista method)

- Masked Stretch + Histogram Stretch

- ACDNR

- Exported as .Tiff

Photoshop:

- Blending of Foreground into Star+Comet Image

- Curves to increase Contrast

- Saturation increase

- GradientXTerminator applied with gradient mask

- Unsharp + Noise Reduction for Comet detail

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F3 NEOWISE in Evening Twilight (15 July 2020), Brent Newton

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