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The Christmas Tree Cluster and The Cone Nebula HaSHO, David Cruz
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The Christmas Tree Cluster and The Cone Nebula HaSHO

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The Christmas Tree Cluster and The Cone Nebula HaSHO, David Cruz
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The Christmas Tree Cluster and The Cone Nebula HaSHO

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To celebrate this festive season here is The Christmas Tree Cluster and The Cone Nebula. This amazing duo was captured using a mono camera with narrowband filters to produce this false color image in SHO Hubble Palette. 14h was the total integration time. Despite having almost 5h in OIII I had a really hard time processing this channel due to its weak signal and because I captured it in light polluted sky. Now I know OIII must have priority under dark skies and save Ha/SII for light polluted skies. As luminance I used the strong Ha signal to clean the noise, during the heavy processing, dim the stars and enhance the details.

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The Christmas Tree Cluster and The Cone Nebula HaSHO, David Cruz