M76 NB w/RGB Stars (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: Barbell Nebula · Cork Nebula · HD10498 · Little Dumbbell · Little Dumbbell Nebula · M 76 · NGC 650 · NGC 651 · PK130-10.1

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M76 NB w/RGB Stars

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I haven't seen this imaged as much as I'd have thought it would be so I decided to give it a go. Most of the data is NB using my APC-T filter, with some RGB data collected using my L-Pro filter. Data from L-pro was split into separate channels and recombined then Photometrically Color Calibrated in PI for star color.
There is a thread recently going on here on AB about adding stars back into a starless image that I was following and decided to give it a try. I really do like the results. That post is here if your interested in reading it: https://www.astrobin.com/forum/c/astrophotography/deep-sky-processing-techniques/an-excellent-method-of-blending-rgb-stars-with-a-narrowband-image/
I included my comparison between the 2 versions of incorporating the stars back into the starless image for comparison. I do like the results of the new way and plan to continue to use it.

I plan to do a cropped in version with different processing so that will be coming here shortly.

Hope you like!

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Title: Star blend in Nebula

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Title: Star blend on bright star

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Title: Cropped

Description: I cropped original data but then completely reprocessed this for more detail in the core using multi-layers combine in PM and Gimp to help pull more structure out in the core without blowing it out. I'm very happy with how this turned out.

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RA (center)	01h42m19s.508
RA (top/left)	01h40m28s.182
RA (top/right)	01h42m40s.186
RA (bottom/right)	01h44m10s.674
RA (bottom/left)	01h41m58s.557

Dec (center)	+51°34′25″.13
Dec (top/left)	+51°36′34″.48
Dec (top/right)	+51°17′17″.35
Dec (bottom/right)	+51°32′09″.90
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