Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  HD57027  ·  HD57057  ·  IC 468  ·  LBN 1040  ·  LBN 1041  ·  NGC 2359  ·  Sh2-298
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NGC2359, Thor's Helmet, SHO, AnaTa
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NGC2359, Thor's Helmet, SHO

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NGC2359, Thor's Helmet, SHO, AnaTa
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NGC2359, Thor's Helmet, SHO

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Description

This is my first un-guided and narrowband image. This one is process as SHO palette.

Processing:
Stars are RGB
SHO are combined as RGB
Ha is artificial Lum
Cropping for SHO and Lum
Blur and Noise XT for RGB- stars, SHO and Lum
Manual stretching (with HT) RGB stars, SHO and Lum
Combined SHO and Lum
Noise XT again
Stretching again
Star XT, and did not save stars
Simple Lum mask 
Local Histogram Equalization: Kernel radius of 40 and then 150
Multi-scale-media transform to add sharpness.
Curves: saturation and brightness are manipulated. Color mask have been used. 
Mask off.
Saturated RGB stars are added.
Done

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NGC2359, Thor's Helmet, SHO, AnaTa

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