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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Tom Engwall
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

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This has been an interesting object to process. I was extremely satisfied with the RGB combination but felt that the much of my detail ws blown away when I combined the luminance master in LRGB Combine. I tried a lot of different approaches and finally settled on using HDRMT on the luminance and then dimming it a little with HT. That seemed to add some detailed structure but I can't help but wonder wonder if there is a better way. The high dynamic range in this object makes it kind of difficult but I'm generally satisfied with what I ended up with. I added the Ha to the LRGB image but I had to dim down a really hot spot first with a game script mask because it just seemed too bright and that was distracting.. I used Bill Blanchan's star reduction process to deemphasize the stars a little ( I really like his process. It works well without adding artifacts.)

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Tom Engwall

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