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Coma Cluster (RGB)

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Description

Between clouds and smoke from the Canadian fires there hasn't been much chance for imaging at home. I was originally planning to do an integration 2-3 times longer but I suspect I might be challenged in getting that done and when I integrated my intermediate results I liked them enough to declare victory.

Processing was fairly straightforward. Normally I'd use starXterminator to pull out the stars before stretching but the current model (version 11) pulls out too many of the small galaxies. Since my goal in separating the stars is to be able to stretch them less I would have ended up dimming a bunch of small galaxies which would be self defeating in this image that is full of small galaxies. 

Processing:

RGB:
channel combination
DBE
SPCC
blurxterminator
GHS
noseXtemrinator
MLT (mild sharpening)
Curves (slight contrast and color boosts)

And that's it.

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