Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  IC 2599  ·  NGC 3324
NGC3324, Jean-Baptiste
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NGC3324

NGC3324, Jean-Baptiste
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NGC3324

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SHO : 24x24x25 x10 mn subs

Data from Telescope Live

Some processing notes :
After several integration trials, I decided to use Ha only for the Luminance.
The signal was so good that I deliberatley wanted NOT to oversharpen the nebula area, especially the center where you can end with huge "black" areas if you play too much with the higher wavelet layer in MLT.
I tried to keep a smooth rendering while maintaining some contrast in the center.
I tried to maintain sharpness "around the head" to emphasize the center of the image.

On the other hand, I wanted to have sharp stars and I had a "manual" deconvolution of my own dedicated to the stars shape with a a dedicated stretch.

SHO composition for nebula colours; I tried to keep the hue variation (from my initial composition in linear) in the result, with orange / yellow / green / cyan / blue / magenta
HOO composition + SPCC for the stars colours

Clear skies :-)

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NGC3324, Jean-Baptiste