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Cone Nebula, Alex Ranous
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Cone Nebula

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Cone Nebula

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When I first composed this, I noticed this bright blob of nebulosity in the right corner that hardly anyone includes, so I thought I'd include it.  It kinda stands out and some might find it distracting, so I uploaded a cropped version as well.  I'm on the fence which version I prefer.

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Description: Ok, I'm finding the blue blob in the lower right somewhat distracting. The bright pop of color draws my eye away from the more ethereal pastels of the rest of the nebula. I cropped that sucker out in this version. An improvement, or is it worth keeping it in? Most images of the cone area don't include it, so it's a bit more unique.

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Description: So far in my experimenting with BlurXTerminator, I've been doing it primarily with data captured with my flattener, at .89 arcsec/pixel. I wanted to see how it did with clean data using my flattener at 1.31. As I expected, its effect as far as sharpening details was barely noticeable at all, similar to my experience with conventional deconvolution. Since I started down the road, I did finish reprocessing the data as NoiseXTerminator came out since I did this before, and I've learned a few things along the way.

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Cone Nebula, Alex Ranous