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Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), galactic_surfer
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Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)

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Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)

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The Sculptor Galaxy - about 10 million light years away - is located in the constellation Sculptor, which is near Aquarius and Cetus. It is a starburst galaxy with a high rate of star formation.

PixInsight workflow:

Luminance:
- BXT
- DBE
- NXT
- Stars extracted with SXT
- Galaxy and stars-only images stretched with GHS (some stars were already close to saturation, so this separation helped)
- HDRMT
- Galaxy and stars-only images combined with PixelMath

RGB:
- BXT
- DBE
- SPCC
- SCNR
- NXT
- Stretched with GHS
- Applied Lum with LRGBCombination
- Increased saturation with CurvesTransformation
- Adjusted black point (without clipping) with HistogramTransformation

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Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), galactic_surfer