Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6072
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NGC6072 NB-RGB, andrea tasselli
NGC6072 NB-RGB
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NGC6072 NB-RGB

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NGC6072 NB-RGB, andrea tasselli
NGC6072 NB-RGB
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NGC6072 NB-RGB

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This is one that nearly didn't make it. I really struggled to get some half-decent image together in large part due to have to use short exposures as the system in Namibia wasn't working very well. The main issue was adding the NB signal into the RGB image and nothing was working right out of the box, somehow. Eventually I simply added the H-alpha and OIII signal straight into the R and G/B frames without any further ado. That seemed to do the trick. Also, getting the right star colour correction wasn't easy either and I had to manually balance the R and B channels. Plus several hours correcting field uniformity and noisy artifacts all over the place. In the end this is what I came up with. A nice example of butterfly PN.

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NGC6072 NB-RGB, andrea tasselli