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Messier 106 and NGC 4217


Messier 106 and NGC 4217

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 723 frames (6h)

Processing:

Siril 1.2.4:

Crop to 4400x3300px
BQ Octantis' white balance, background subtraction, and histogram conditioning
StarNet++ star desaturation
GraXpert denoising
StarNet++:
- separation into stars and background
- background: generalized hyperbolic stretch, black point, another generalized hyperbolic stretch, background extraction, saturation increase
- stars: Borodog's synthetic blue (B=2*G-R), modified arcsinh stretch, saturation
RGB star alignment

RawTherapee 5.11:

L*a*b* chrominance/luminance noise reduction
Luminance noise reduction

GIMP 2.10:

Luminance curve
Saturation






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