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Two-Panel HSO Mosaic of LBN 174 & LBN 182, Robert H. Kutner
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Two-Panel HSO Mosaic of LBN 174 & LBN 182

Two-Panel HSO Mosaic of LBN 174 & LBN 182, Robert H. Kutner
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Two-Panel HSO Mosaic of LBN 174 & LBN 182

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Description

2-panel mosaic taken over multiple nights of LBN 171 and LBN 182

Acquired 2 separate SHO sets, 1 set for each panel, ~21 x 300s images  @ -10c & 100g, 1x1 bin, ~95% were usable.

Blink / Subframe Select, Calibrated (100 Dark, 60 Flat, 100 Bias), Star Aligned all images with PixInsight. Used the Normalized Scale Gradient for integration - this knocked several sub-frames out.  

DBE each frame for Sii and Oiii only, Star Aligned with Mosaic Union to generate a template for Star Alignment, panels were 'matched' images to the template with Star Alignment. Registered/'matched' panels were dnaLinearfit prior to GMM. Repeated the Mosaic Union to GMM to combine each panel into a 3-panel mosaic of each channel.

For Ha, Sii, & Oiii channels: Dynamic Cropped, SCNR, TGV, MMT (& duplicated the Ha here for the Lum), EZ Soft Stretch, StarNet for star removal, and PixelMath Combine with:

R- Oiii*Sii + ~Oiii*(.1*Sii+.9*Ha)
G- Ha*(0.7*Ha+0.3*Oiii) + ~Ha*Oiii
B- Oiii*Oiii + ~Oiii*(.3*Sii+.7*Oiii)

The duplicated Ha -> Lum was Dynamic Cropped, EZ Noise'd, Mask Stretched, STF Stretched, HDR, DSE, LHT, MMT, EZStar Reduction, and LRGB Combined with the PixelMath SHO image.

The image was Curves modified w/ masks, saved as tiff and moved to Photoshop to adjust hues. Saved and moved back to PI, Resampled, and Annotated.

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Two-Panel HSO Mosaic of LBN 174 & LBN 182, Robert H. Kutner

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