Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5272
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M3 RGB under a bright Moon, Greg Nelson
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M3 RGB under a bright Moon

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M3 RGB under a bright Moon, Greg Nelson
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M3 RGB under a bright Moon

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M3 is a beautiful globular cluster and I was pleased at the resolution of dim stars from the background sky under the bright sky under the moon. I was also just amazed at the control over the stretching of both RGB and saturation using the GHS script add-on utility to Pixinsight. I completed stretch and saturation of the image in just two operations, which is much more efficient than my previous processing technique for globulars. I'm a believer in GHS and will be learning more of its utility as I process through my data backlog.

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M3 RGB under a bright Moon, Greg Nelson