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M49, giant elliptical galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
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M49, giant elliptical galaxy, LRGB

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M49, giant elliptical galaxy, LRGB

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Image of M49 giant elliptical galaxy. SNR=65. 

Processing:
Cropping for RGB and Lum
RGB are combined.
DBE for RGB
Color Colib for RGB
Blur and Noise XT for RGB and Lum
Manual stretching (with HT) RGB and Lum
LRGB was created
Noise XT again
Stretching again
Star XT did not work
Simple Lum mask 
Local Histogram Equalization: Kernel radius of 40 and then 150
Multiscale-median transform for sharpness. 
Curves: saturation, hue and brightness are manipulated.
Mask off.
Annotation (panel A).
Done

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M49, giant elliptical galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa

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