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Hickson (HCG) 68 and NGC 5371 LRGB, Bob Rucker
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Hickson (HCG) 68 and NGC 5371 LRGB

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Hickson (HCG) 68 and NGC 5371 LRGB, Bob Rucker
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Hickson (HCG) 68 and NGC 5371 LRGB

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I managed to have a clear evening and decided to go for HCG 68 and frame it so that NGC 5371 was included. Processing this one about did me in on account of some really strange background color gradients. These caused image solver and SPCC to fail and StarXTerminator was unable to remove larger stars. I finally identified the problem as something with the new Pixinsight gradient correction process. I've used it on other images but there was something about this data set that tripped it up.

I did a complete do over and reprocessed the data using Graxpert AI. The problem dissapeared and allowed me to finally move on.

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Hickson (HCG) 68 and NGC 5371 LRGB, Bob Rucker