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Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula, Wanda Conde
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Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula

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Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula

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This is an object that I had on my target list for a long time and finally this year I planned to spend the whole summer on it and thus achieve a good amount of data. Unfortunately this year the weather has been very uncooperative and between troughs, dust from the Sahara, tropical waves, hurricane threats, I barely achieved 8.45 hours of integration. Still I decided to give it a try. Processing it presented quite some challenges as the Sahara dust layer that has prevailed this summer degraded many of the frames considerably and I had to work with them as is. Despite all the setbacks I am happy with the result I achieved. Thanks for watching!

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    Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula, Wanda Conde
    Original
    Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula, Wanda Conde
    B
  • Final
    Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula, Wanda Conde
    C

B

Description: The original version had some traces of chromatic noise that I was finally able to remove with a careful application of TGV Denoise on on the chrominance channel. I hope you can also notice the improvement.

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C

Description: Dialing down the noise with Russell Croman's NoiseXterminator. I also changed the color profile to Adobe RGB. Now I am much more happier with the overall result in spite of the short integration time.

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Sh2-101 Tulip Nebula, Wanda Conde