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The Seagull Nebula - IC 2177 (2-panel mosaic), Georg G Albrecht
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The Seagull Nebula - IC 2177 (2-panel mosaic)

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The Seagull Nebula - IC 2177 (2-panel mosaic), Georg G Albrecht
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The Seagull Nebula - IC 2177 (2-panel mosaic)

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I thought I would never get to the end...Like the real ones (seagulls) can be, this one has been most pesty the entire way through processing. This is probably the 6th or 7th full process reiteration I went through. I didn't like any of the end results. As a friend of mine says; you are your own worst critic...
I took dual-narrowband (120/170) and broadband data (60/60) for this target and processed the DNB straight without splitting channels and trying lengthy combinations to get some sort of Hubble palette or HOO.
I have tried a few times the NBNormalisation tool but the outcomes have never been at my liking. At least not with my data. However, I did try here a new way to recombine the broadband data. I squeezed out as much info and color of the nebulosity hidden in the broadband data after separating out the stars and once at my liking I recombined the stars. Then I used the new script ImageBlend to combine the broadband image/stars with the DNB image. The method I settled on after some (again lengthy) testing around, was Lighten/Max.
I don't want to see one single bird for the next few days....

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