Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  LBN 766  ·  LBN 767  ·  NGC 1579  ·  Sh2-222
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Northern Triffid (LRGB), Linda
Powered byPixInsight
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Northern Triffid (LRGB), Linda
Powered byPixInsight

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

I'm a big fan of the Triffid Nebula, M20, but it's gone for the season so instead we turned to NGC 1579, also known as the Northern Triffid. It must be a distant relationship. The resemblance is not exactly strong but I get why people call it that. But, whatever you call it, this is a really interesting area of the sky. But, how come when the Universe leaves dust about it's called photogenic but when I do it's called bad housekeeping?!

Processing was fairly straightforward:

L:
dynamic crop
deconvolution
DBE
histogram transformation
TGV denoise

RGB:
channel combination
dynamic crop
DBE
PCC
histogram transformation
TGV denoise
channel combination in L
starXterminator (extracting stars)
HDR Multiscale Transform
LHE
Dark Structure Enhance script
Curves (contrast)
pixel math in stars

stars:
EZ Star Reduction

I exported the RGB as a 16-bit tiff and did some final touch up in photoshop (some tweaks in camera raw)

Comments