Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1805
Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula, robo9981
Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula
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Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula, robo9981
Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula
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Processing Details
  1. Preprocessing using WBPP
  2. SubframeSelector > ImageIntegration > Drizzle Integration
  3. DynamicCrop + DBE on individual Ha/Oiii/Sii channels
  4. Starless Deconvolution on Ha
  5. EZDenoise on Ha, Oiii, and Sii separately
  6. EZSoftStretch on Ha, Oiii, and Sii
  7. EZStarReduction on Oiii and Sii (cause halooosss)
  8. ChannelCombination using R=Sii, G=Ha, B=Oiii
  9. Inverted SCNR (Green 1.0) to remove some magenta cast
  10. Additional EZStarReduction on color image
  11. Curves for saturation and a slight decrease in green
  12. LRGBCombination to bring in Ha as L channel
  13. Curves for contrast, saturation, and a bit more color tweaking
  14. LHE (radius 128, contrast limit 4.0, amount 0.05) for additional contrast
  15. Blended small scale LHE (radius 16, contrast limit 4, amount 0.2) on the core @ 50%
  16. DarkStructureEnhance
  17. Final EZStarReduction to decrease stars one last time.

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Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula, robo9981