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Horsehead & Flame.  Tak TOA-130 (first light!) & Rasa11, arjan brussee
Horsehead & Flame.  Tak TOA-130 (first light!) & Rasa11
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Horsehead & Flame. Tak TOA-130 (first light!) & Rasa11

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Horsehead & Flame.  Tak TOA-130 (first light!) & Rasa11, arjan brussee
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Horsehead & Flame. Tak TOA-130 (first light!) & Rasa11

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Finally was able to capture B33. The southern objects are problematic for me from my backyard at 52’North.  Only a few hours of RGB trying to deal with trees&the house from the backyard.  
I really wanted to capture the IC reflection nebulae in this field, and got some good views on those. These are not visible at all in purely Ha/O3 narrowband. 

I used the (much smoother) Ha data to blend through the R(GB), and also as a luminance sharpening pass on the data to lift out the overall nebulosity contrast.  Kept the colors as how they came out of pure RGB combination. 

This was a combination of RGB with the new Tak TOA130+WR35+6200MM+Antlia on the Mach2GTO, and a few hours of Ha with the RASA11 also with a 6200MM through Baader-UNB on the Mach1GTO.

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Horsehead & Flame.  Tak TOA-130 (first light!) & Rasa11, arjan brussee