Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Zodiacal Light near Orion, Brent Newton
Zodiacal Light near Orion
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Zodiacal Light near Orion

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Zodiacal Light near Orion, Brent Newton
Zodiacal Light near Orion
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Zodiacal Light near Orion

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Finally captured this! I think I will try it again during the upcoming OkieTex star party - this shot was somewhat frantic. High humidity and the approaching end of astronomical darkness did not allow me to capture much on this before my camera both dewed over and the skies began to lighten.

PixInsight Processing:

- Calibration with Darks & Cosmic Correction

- Star Align and Integration

- Luminance Extracted for separate processing

Luminance:

- Deconvolution using PSF Script, Star Mask for support, Luminance Mask

- DBE to remove radio tower glow

- TGVD NR

- MLT NR

- Masked Stretch

- ACDNR for LNR

Color:

- Color Calibration

- Background Neutralization

- DBE to remove glow from nearby radio tower

- TGVD for Chrominance NR using Lum Mask

- SCNR Green

- Masked Stretch

- ACDNR for final Color NR

LRGB:

- LRGB Combination

- Morph Transformation for star reduction

- ACDNR for final NR

Photoshop:

- Multiple layers of masked color increases and decreases to control background color and bring out the Ha regions in Orion

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Zodiacal Light near Orion, Brent Newton

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