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Coma Cluster (Abel 1656) in LRGB, Robert H. Kutner
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Coma Cluster (Abel 1656) in LRGB

Coma Cluster (Abel 1656) in LRGB, Robert H. Kutner
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Coma Cluster (Abel 1656) in LRGB

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Dithered during acquisition. Blink / Subframe Select, Calibrated (60 Dark, 60 Flat, 100 Bias), Star Aligned all images with PixInsight, about 90% were useable. Used Image Integration with drizzle then Dynamic Cropped. 

For 60s R, G, & B channels: ABE, EZDeNoise, STF Stretch, and channel combined using LRGB comb.  

For 300s Lum: ABE, TGVd, MLT, Mask Stretched, HDR, DSE, and MMT before LRGB Combined with 60s RGB image.

For 10s stars: LRGB Channel Comb. RGB Star Image was masked with an inverted Star Mask and replaced with LRGB image using Pixel Math.

For 300/60s stars: LRGB Channel Comb. RGB Star Image was masked with an inverted Star Mask and replaced with LRGB image using Pixel Math.

Final combined image was Curves modified w/ & w/o masks. Moved to Photoshop to further adjust saturation, contrast, and additional noise reduction.  Returned to PI for Resample and Annotation.

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Coma Cluster (Abel 1656) in LRGB, Robert H. Kutner

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