Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1491
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NGC 1491

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NGC 1491

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The dynamic range of this target made for some tricky processing. I like how things look now, but I might come back to this with fresh eyes later. I tried to incorporate some new steps in my Pixinsight workflow - Bill Blanshan's color mask and narrowband normalization equations were key contributors here.

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Title: Re-processed

Description: I took another round at this as I feel like I went a bit overboard with the colors on rev1. I only cropped the edges to show the wider field, and I tried to emphasize some of the finer structures in the nebula's core (thanks BXT). I processed this as a normal RGB image without any attempt to go at the channels separately. Which do you prefer?

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NGC 1491, Matt