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NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula (HOO Palette), IrishAstro4484
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NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula (HOO Palette)

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NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula (HOO Palette), IrishAstro4484
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NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula (HOO Palette)

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Shot in narrowband with a 2600mc pro single shot colour camera and L-Extreme narrowband filter at a Bortle 1 dark sky site near Heathcote Victoria. Processed in Pixinsight with the HOONormalisation tool developed by Bill Blanshan.

Processing steps in Pixinsight based on the following tutorial: (33) OSC to HUBBLE in RECORD Time! FREE Tools for PixInsight! - YouTube

Steps as follows:

1. Dynamic Crop.

2. Automatic background Extraction.

3. EZ DeNoise. 

4. EZ Soft stretch (Convert to nonlinear).

5. Use Starnet to create starless Image and starmask.

6. Apply HDR Multscale Transform.  

7. Apply HOONormalisation tool. (available at: PixInsight Tools - Google Drive)

8. Adjust contrast and saturation in curves transformation tool

9. Use Pixelmath to combine starless image and star mask

10. Apply EZ Star Reduction

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NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula (HOO Palette), IrishAstro4484