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A Small Portion of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, Josh McCollum
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A Small Portion of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

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A Small Portion of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, Josh McCollum
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A Small Portion of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

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Had a very tiny window of oppurtunity to capture this target. Weather radars gave about 3 hours of clear sky in my Bortle 2 site I was at. I setup my sequence for worst-case and lucky I did, clouds came in 40 minutes early. I had captured all 1 hour and 30 minutes of Lum, 30 minutes of Red and just 7 frames of Blue. No green. In processing my other images, I realized that with the correct color adjustments, the star colors can look like RGB stars with the green. I combined the image as LRRB (since the red stars would appear yellow and the blue stars would be extremely blue) and with the hue curve in Pix I was able to get it close to what it would actually be. Unfortunately not accurate, but I did what I could

30x180 L
15x180 R
7x180 B
No green

Rokinon 135 with ZWO ASI183MM Pro and ZWO LRGB filters

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A Small Portion of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, Josh McCollum