Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3034
M82 with L-eNhance, KTAZ
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M82 with L-eNhance

M82 with L-eNhance, KTAZ
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M82 with L-eNhance

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I took these lights over 3 nights with the L-enHance a few months back and got kind of discouraged trying to get a decent result out of processing. After a lot of reading, and making a number of changes to my workflow (breaking out of that "these are the steps I must follow" mentality is a must), I feel like I finally ended up with a nice result.

The LE does tend to cast some halos around particularly bright stars; I learned how to do some creative masking and used curves to reduce them nicely. A lot of energy is also required to get a reasonable color balance back into the stars.

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M82 with L-eNhance, KTAZ