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Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174), Chris Gnam
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Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174)

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Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174), Chris Gnam
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Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174)

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Description

Another relatively quick night before I start traveling for a few weeks.  I tried again for an SHO Hubble Palette and I'm pretty happy about the results!  Once I'm home again I'm hoping to try to use my Orion ED80 (with 0.8x focal reducer) to try to image this target again but a lot closer up.

Processing Details:
PixInsight:
  • WeightedBatchPreprocessing (Calibration, Registration, and Stacking)
  • AutomaticBackgroundExtractor
  • ScreenTransferFunction + HistogramTransformation (Stretching)
  • ChannelCombination (combining 3 channels SHO -> RGB)
  • SCNR (to dial back the green)
  • CurvesTransformation (some minor tweaks to the colors and further stretching)

LightRoom:
  • Increase in vibrance/saturation
  • Boost contrast
  • Noise reduction and Color Noise reduction
  • Slightly bumped Dehaze
  • Crop

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Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174), Chris Gnam