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A whole lotta Soul, Dawn Lowry
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A whole lotta Soul

A whole lotta Soul, Dawn Lowry
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A whole lotta Soul

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Description

I am completely IN LOVE with this area of the sky. The nebulosity is so incredible. wide field or close. It's so wonderful

I was able to capture this over 5 nights.

I went to a high gain for a while but ti is challenging to calibrate out so I returned to 200_50 after this image

~~~~Tekkie stuffs:

Telescope: Explorer scientific Ed 80 FCD-100

Camera: ASI1600pro

Filters: Astrodon E series

Mount: Atlas EQ-G

Guiding camera: 290 mini with OAG

SHO~. 84:86:85 300 sec images

Total integration time: 21.25 hours

Seeing/ environment: 2-3

Bortle Class: Class 5/6 Backyard~ Central Indiana

Dates of acquisition: 10/4-5 11/5-8, 2020

processing Pixinsght:

processing: considerations. MULTIPLE nights with good alignment (2 degree error allowed in SGP)

synth lum created for Decon

Aligned all to each other.

Crop

DBE individually

SHO combine with 15% of Ha added to R and 10% to Blue

SHO workflow~BGN; MLT for Noise reduction

Lum workflow~decon with autopsf 40 iterations 5 layers;

MLT for noise reduction

Arc sin for SHO and chose HT for Lum with Bg at 10% for both

TGVDN

LHE after for small and larger kernels masked for the nebula

Curves with range and color and Lum masking for lightness and sat boost

LOADS of masking to bring colors.

XPTR with Lum mask for lum boost;

MLT for sharpening.

Morph to reduce the stars just a bit and ICC to end.

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A whole lotta Soul, Dawn Lowry