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vdB 14 & vdB 15, Andy  Brown
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vdB 14 & vdB 15

Revision title: Reprocessed stars with Pixinsight/BlurXTerminator

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vdB 14 & vdB 15

Revision title: Reprocessed stars with Pixinsight/BlurXTerminator

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Description

vdB 14 & 15 in Camelopardalis 

Two beautiful reflection nebulae, both illuminated by supergiant stars and surrounded by faint molecular dust clouds. vdB 15 also has an emission component giving it a pinkish tinge. 

This is only 3 hours of integration time and would benefit from more time plus some Ha to enhance the emission colour.

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Title: Reprocessed stars with Pixinsight/BlurXTerminator

Description: I reprocessed the RGB integration in Pixinsight and ran BlurXTerminator to clean up the stars. I then extracted the stars with StarXTerminator and exported to TIFF to use them as the stars layer in Photoshop.

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vdB 14 & vdB 15, Andy  Brown