Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle Nebula  ·  IC 4703  ·  LBN 67  ·  LBN 68  ·  LBN 70  ·  LBN 71  ·  LBN 72  ·  LDN 394  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6604  ·  NGC 6611  ·  Sh2-49  ·  Sh2-54  ·  Star Queen  ·  Star Queen nebula
M 16 and LBN 70 in SHO, Robert H. Kutner
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M 16 and LBN 70 in SHO

M 16 and LBN 70 in SHO, Robert H. Kutner
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M 16 and LBN 70 in SHO

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Description

ASIAir pro to acquire 12 x 300s images @ -10c & 120g for Ha, Sii, & Oiii, all were usable. For RGB, for stars, 10 x 10s images @ -10c & 0g. Dithered.

Blink / Subframe Select, Calibrated (60 Dark, 60 D/Flat, 100 Bias), Star Aligned all images with PixInsight. Used Image Integration with Drizzle.  

For Ha, Sii, & Oiii channels:  Cropped, TGV, MLT, and channel combined with Ha to G, Sii to R, & Oiii to B. Extracted Lum, Decon, Mask Stretched, Star Net, STF Stretched, HDR, LHT, and LRGB Combined with the SHO image which was SoftStretched prior and StarNet'd to remove stars. 

RGB filter data combined with Channel Combination, Image was masked with an inverted Star Mask and replaced with SHO image using Pixel Math to add the nebulosity around select RGB stars.

Final image was Curves modified w/ & w/o masks. TGV, MMT, Resampled, Cropped, and Annotated.

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M 16 and LBN 70 in SHO, Robert H. Kutner