Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  M 102  ·  NGC 5866  ·  NGC 5867  ·  Spindle galaxy
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M102, the Spindle Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
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M102, the Spindle Galaxy, LRGB

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M102, the Spindle Galaxy, LRGB

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Description

Image of M102, the Spindle Galaxy, has SNR of 2.5.
Two panels are LRGB (Panel A) and LRGB annotation (Panel B)

Processing:
Dynamic Crop for R, G, B, Lum
GraXpert for Lum, R, G and B.
RGB combine.
Additional DBE for RGB
Color calibration for RGB.
Blur and Noise XT for RGB, and Lum.  
Star XT for RGB
Standard linear HT stretching for RGB, Lum and RGB-stars.

LRGB was created by combining RGB and Lum.
Noise XT and then HT stretch was again applied.
Star XT to remove stars.
Mask with Lum.
LHE, Kernel radius 40 and 150, power 0.3
MMT sharp
Curve for saturation, hue and brightness adjustment for galaxy.
Curve for star saturation of RGB stars.
Added RGB stars to the Galaxy (Panel A).
Annotation (Panel B)
Done.

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M102, the Spindle Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa

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