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NGC 457 - Owl Cluster, Dale Penkala
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NGC 457 - Owl Cluster

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NGC 457 - Owl Cluster, Dale Penkala
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NGC 457 - Owl Cluster

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This was another open cluster I took during a full moon. I love clusters of all types because they are fun to shoot even during a full moon. As with my M39 cluster I shot shorter exposures to try to preserve star color and used my L-Pro filter for added contrast.

Processing was the same as M39, processed the image in APP / RGB then removed light pollution, star color calibration and finished off in Gimp with some color adjustments, star reduction and finally a bump up with saturation for the star colors.

Seeing was quite good 4/5 and transparency was ok 7/10

Thanks for looking!

Dale

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NGC 457 - Owl Cluster, Dale Penkala