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Messier 11 (Wild Duck Cluster)


Messier 11 (Wild Duck Cluster)

Acquisition:

Bortle 7 skies
Nikon D7000 camera
Orion Apex 102mm telescope, 1300mm focal length
iOptron CEM26 mount
15s x 104 frames
f/12.7
ISO 800

Processing:

SiriL:

Background extraction
Photometric color calibration
Generalized hyperbolic transformation
Manual histogram stretching

RawTherapee:

Contrast
Highlight compression
Luminance and chroma denoising

GIMP:

Luminance curve adjustment
Slight color balance adjustment (less orange)
Slight saturation increase
Slight sharpness increase






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