Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Aaron Freimark
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Aaron Freimark
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

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Description

Perhaps the most beautiful galaxy visible to me.


Preprocessing
1. Use PixInsight’s SubframeSelector tool to identify and delete any subs with Eccentricity > 0.7
2. WeightedBatchProcessing
3. Create preview around galaxy
4. DrizzleIntegration with Region of Interest to crop to preview
5. Rotate
6. Dynamic Background Extraction on R, G, B, L

L
1. EZ Denoise
3. Histogram Transformation

RGB
1. LinearFit R & G to B
2. ChannelCombination
3. Color Calibration
4. EZ Soft Stretch
5. Convolution
6. LRGB Combination to apply L, with 0.3 saturation
7. Repeat two more times, with Color Noise Reduction at the end
8. CurvesTransformation
9. Topaz Denoise AI

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  • M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Aaron Freimark
    Original
  • Final
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    B

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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Aaron Freimark