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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in SHO with RGB stars, Steven Gill (Parkesburg Observatory)
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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in SHO with RGB stars

Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in SHO with RGB stars, Steven Gill (Parkesburg Observatory)
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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in SHO with RGB stars

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I took this photo over 3 evenings after fixing a nagging RA problem with my EQ8 mount. It has resulted in much less subs tossed due to poor guiding, and has led to much more discretion on "keepers" and I think improves overall image quality. This is one of my favorite nebula, so I love to revisit it every year and I think this is my favorite rendition so far. I wound up going straight SHO in processing and really wanted to fine blue to stand out from the Oiii contribution. Adjusting green curves, kept it more to the yellowish side, so I decided to color mask yellow, convolve the mask and bump up the red curve a bit to achieve the look I was going for. 

I also substituted the narrowband stars for RGB ones.

Integration:
Ha 52x300s
Oiii 71x300s
Sii 67x300s

For stars
R 18x60s
G 22x60s
B 21x60s

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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in SHO with RGB stars, Steven Gill (Parkesburg Observatory)

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