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Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396)

Revision title: Better Processing

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Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396)

Revision title: Better Processing

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Description

Started with about 7.5 hours of data, and had to reject a large number of subs due to high winds.  First time doing polar alignment with the Celestron Starsense Autoguider.

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Title: Better Processing

Description: Used the Narrowband Normalization process for PixInsight, as well as some pixelmath for creating RGB'ish stars using narrowband data.

I used different masking and added a bit of green which contrasts nicely with the Ha.

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Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396), wizzlebippi