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Messier 63 (Sunflower Galaxy)


Messier 63 (Sunflower Galaxy)

Acquisition:

Bortle 7 skies
Nikon D5600 camera (unmodified)
ISO 200
Astro-Tech AT102ED refractor, 714mm focal length, f/7
HoTech 2" SCA field flattener (1X)
iOptron CEM26 mount
30s x 274 frames (2h 17m) -- Could have done more but it just didn't seem worth it.

Processing:

Siril 1.2.1:

Crop to 4000x3000px
BQ Octantis' technique of white balance, background subtraction, and histogram conditioning
StarNet:
- background: modified arcsinh and generalized hyperbolic stretches, background extraction
- stars: synthetic blue (B=2*G-R), modified arcsinh stretch, saturation
- Single star RGB alignment on combined image

RawTherapee 5.9:

L*a*b CL curve (to reduce background chroma noise)
Luminance noise reduction

GIMP 2.10:

Luminance curve
Saturation






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