Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 109  ·  NGC 3992
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M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
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M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB

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M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
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M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB

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Description

Image of M109, he Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy has SNR of 3.6. 
Two panels are LRGB (Panel A) and LRGB annotation(Panel B)

Processing:
Dynamic Crop for R, G, B, Lum
GraXpert for Lum, R, G and B.
RGB combine.
Additional DBE for RGB
Color calibration for RGB.
Blur and Noise XT for RGB and Lum.  
Star XT for RGB
Standard linear HT stretching for RGB (with stars), Lum and RGB-stars.

Lum added to RGB to create LRGB.
Noise XT and then HT stretch was again applied.
Star XT to remove stars
Mask with Lum.
LHE, Kernel radius 40 and 150, power 0.5 and 0.3, respectively. 
MMT sharp (0.04-0.06 setting)
Curve for saturation, hue and brightness adjustment for galaxy.
Curve for star saturation of RGB stars.
Added RGB stars to the Galaxy (Panel A).
Annotation (Panel B)
Panel A was cropped. 
Done.

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  • M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
    Original
  • M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
    D
  • Final
    M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa
    E

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M109, the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, LRGB, AnaTa

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