Sh2-173 | Phantom of the Opera Rework (Jan Schubert)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: NGC 103 · The star 12 Cas

Sh2-173 | Phantom of the Opera Rework, Jan Schubert

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Sh2-173 | Phantom of the Opera Rework

I don't want to say that I was never satisfied with the original picture https://www.astrobin.com/full/fet7h6/0/ and the result, after all, the AB team gave it a TP, but I was always bothered by the mass of stars that overload the picture.
So I sat down again and edited the picture with new know-how and tools.
The result comes very close to what I imagined.
I've already tested Russell Croman's BlurXterminator on my M106 recording, and the tool really impressed me with this recording. By sharpening the stars in the linear image, there are other options for later processing.
Well done Russell!
Short list of processing steps:
RGB: Pixinsight -> DBE -> SPCC -> BlurXTerminator -> NoiseXterminator -> MaskedStrech + HistoStrech -> SCNR -> Curves
Ha: Pixinsight -> DBE-> BlurXterminator -> NoiseXterminator-> GHS -> StarNet 2
Photoshop was used to Blend RGB With Ha and a bit of Star shrinking, also BackGround Level and sharpening.

Hope u like it!

CS Jan

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