Monkey Head (Christopher Davenport)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Monkey Head Nebula · NGC 2174 · NGC 2175

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Monkey Head

Dedicated to Joshua, for you are the Monkey in my life. Love Dad.

This nebula has been a real journey for me, as I started it off in RGB, then unhappy with the stars bloating with long RGB exposures, I added shorter frames to neaten the stars down.
To get a more natural look in terms of blending the stars back in I have used soft light filters and dust and scratches. I hope you like the effect of the subdued stars. I have relied on Starnet to separate out the stars for processing.

On the nebula itself, it actually looked pretty good in RGB, however after collecting a tonne of HA data, I was stuck as it overwhelmed the image.
So I decided to shorten the HA exposures down to 3 minutes and added in the same on O3. I then decided to use the original longer exposure HA as luminance.
This worked really well, as it allowed the broad band RGB to be blended well with the new shorter exposure HA and 03.

There is some sharpening in this image around the central part of the nebula. I have decided to start to use the sharpen brush selectively.
Then I blend the sharping back in, through a layer using transparency, to get a good balance between sharpening and still the softness of the original image.

I hope you enjoy this one, as it has been a real learning curve on the processing front.

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