Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star 32And  ·  The star νAnd
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Andromeda Widefield, Brent Newton
Andromeda Widefield
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Andromeda Widefield, Brent Newton
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Description

Quick capture which turned out decent despite a large Moon being up. Star colors seem odd to me since they noticeably shift from blue-dominant to yellow-dominant across the image, and I'm not sure if this is natural due to the wide field of view featuring stars on the right being closer to the band of the Milky Way, or if my lens may have something wrong with it.

Pre-Processing:
 - Darks, Flats, Bias calibration
 - Debayer, CC, Weights, 
 - Star Align, Integration

Housekeeping:
 - Crop
 - DBE
 - Photometric CC, Magenta Star Script

Post:
 - MorphTrans to reduce star trailing (weird tracking issue)
 - L extraction for sep processing
 - TGVD, MMT (Rista method)
 - SCNR for color image

 - ArcSinH, MaskedStretch for color
 - Masked Stretch, Histogram Stretch for L
 - Applied HT stars t MS stretch
 - ACDNR (Rista) NR for both
 - Unsharp for L
 - LRGB Combination

Final Processing:
 - MMT using darkened ACDNR Mask to remove LS CNR
 - Curves for Color tweak, Saturation, Contrast
 - Dark Structure 3x3, 7 layer, 0.5 application

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Andromeda Widefield, Brent Newton

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