Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Flame Nebula  ·  IC 434  ·  NGC 2023  ·  Orion B
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Horsehead nebula in SHO, Dr. Dmitrii Paniukov
Horsehead nebula in SHO
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Horsehead nebula in SHO

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Horsehead nebula in SHO, Dr. Dmitrii Paniukov
Horsehead nebula in SHO
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Horsehead nebula in SHO

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Processing notes (preprocessing with WBPP with default settings with Max quality option).Open the Ha, SII, and OIII master files, and rename them. ABE with subtraction on each.

BXT on each. Use 0 for star reduction in BXT, as C8 has nasty aberrations, and BXT results in ugly stars. EZ Soft Stretch on each.Combine into SHO:R=(OIII^~OIII)*SII+~(OIII^~OIII)*Ha
G=((OIII*Ha)^~(OIII*Ha))*Ha+~((OIII*Ha)^~(OIII*Ha))*OIII
B=OIIIThen SCNR on Green.Remove stars with StarXterminator.Star image:
  • CorrentMagentaStars
  • EZ star reduction on the star image.

Main image:
  • RGB workspace: 1 on each channel.
  • Lightness as mask
  • Curves with RGB/K, b, and c, and S adjustments. Invert the mask, and adjust RGB/K and S on the background.
  • ColorMask for blue. Curves with it.
  • ColorMask on red. Curves with it.

Get stars back (disable the mask):~((~SHO)*(~SHO_stars))Dynamic crop

DarkStractureEnhance

NoiseXterminator with .7

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Horsehead nebula in SHO, Dr. Dmitrii Paniukov