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Rosette Nebula, Pete Mumbower
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Rosette Nebula

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Rosette Nebula

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Winter has been rough for the imagers in Michigan. Between working on the 12" and clouds, this is pretty much my only completed image. On top of that, this is pretty short total integration. All that considered, I am happy with this. I have been wanting to get a good image of this since I was a teen back in the 90s. My last real attempt was back then with film...I did not turn out this well.

Pretty basic processing on this in PI. Drizzled 2x (raw shot at 1x1 was sampling at 4.05"...) DBE, SPCC, Channel Combine, Processed the nebula seperate from the stars via StarXT,  NoiseXT, then light HT and curve tweaks.

I am starting to like straight RGB imaging instead of my long time practice of LRGB. I think the colors are better and getting this sharp isnt any harder than a dedicated L.

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Rosette Nebula, Pete Mumbower