Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Updated Horsehead and Flame Nebula

Discovered a problem with the way my software was stacking the images. Once corrected, the shadow artifacts were almost completely removed and the low contrast was fixed. The final image was much improved.  I will be re-doing some earlier images as well to see what improvements I can get. So here is the updated version of the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae.

Improved Horsehead

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