Here is another image I have been working on for the last month. I finally said it's enough. It's almost 30 hours. I started with 1x1 but later switched to 2x2 binning. Seeing doesn't support my ridiculous 0.365"/pixel image scale.
For processing, I must have started from scratch 3 times. I never got it to where I wanted it and finally said this is as good as it's going to get with what I have. It's LRGBHO. Every layer of the ring is a different palette. The core is RGB, the main ring we are all familiar with is H, next blueish layer I call the second ring is Oiii heavy and the outermost (red) layer is Ha heavy mixed in with Oiii. The HA was used as L over the whole thing with different levels of stretch. And RGB star layer was laid over the entire filed for star color. I used Photoshop for all above. Preprocessing and color combinations were done in PI
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let me know what you think. Sometimes when you look at the same image for too many hours, you lose perspective.
