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Horsehead and Flame Nebula, RadMan24
Horsehead and Flame Nebula
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Horsehead and Flame Nebula

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Horsehead and Flame Nebula, RadMan24
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Horsehead and Flame Nebula

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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula, processed to be close to natural color RGB. Stock Canon 90d and Canon 300mm f/4 at f/4.5, with a total integration time of 3 hours and 22 minutes. Sub frames shot at 38 seconds with an ISO of 1500. A total of 320 out of 356 subframes used. Fornax Lighttrack ii used as mount. No guiding, darks, flats (raw converter applied lens correction on linear data), or bias (PS used EXIF data) used or done. Skies: Bortle 4 in outside of Front Royal, VA November 18, 2023.Postprocessing: Lights calibrated in photoshop (reduced highlights; slight noise reduction, applied lens correction, color space in rec2020). Exported 16-bit TIFFs into DSS and aligned/stacked/2x drizzle. Saved DSS file with embedded, not applied, changes as a 32-bit TIF.Rnc-color-stretch for sky removal and color preserving stretch, using v1.02 to pinpoint blackpoint.Photoshop for additional curve work and to remove some green gradients, and downsized for web and sRGB conversion.

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Horsehead and Flame Nebula, RadMan24