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Rainbow Rosette (SHO), Jonathan Young
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Rainbow Rosette (SHO)

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Rainbow Rosette (SHO)

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Description

Rosette Nebula / Caldwell 49 at 5000 lr and 130 lr across - 14 hours over two nights with 5nm narrow-band filters.

Processed in star-tools 1.6 (Dev - contrast - decon - sharp -HDR - color (SHO) and minimal de-noise. Colors (each channel hue) and saturation tweaked in LR. Struggled a bit with star control and over saturation but finally got a "Rainbow" from outer edge to core. Thanks for looking.

55 x 450 Ha

30 x 450 S2

27 x 450 O3

60 Dark

16 Flat / Darkflat

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B

Description: Added a second night of data.
55 x 450 HA
30 x 450 S2
27 x 450 O2

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E

Description: 20191226 Revision - Less aggressive stretch and coloring.

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F

Description: Re balanced to more red hue.

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G

Description: resize, dehaze

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Description: Rainbow-Rosette

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Description: Reprocessed with tweaks to exposure, bin, color etc.
DSS average stack 3x drizzle integration
Compose: L, S, H, O with weightings
Bin to 2.2 arc/pixel (17.67%)
Develop 93%
Contrast strength 70%
DECON 1.5pixels
Sharp (scale small) amount 200%
HDR reveal all. 500 scale, strength 1.1 pixels
Color - constancy, SHO, initial identity, 200% saturation, full dark sat, 4.0 light sat.
Denoise - 2 pixels, scale corr 3, smooth 65%, brightness/color loss 20%.
Touchup in LR (exposure +0.2, contrast +10, shadow/highlight -10, clarity/dehase 10, saturation/vibrance 10, tint -5, temp -5, denoise 10, grain 2). Rescale to 5000 pixel on long side.

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Rainbow Rosette (SHO), Jonathan Young

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