Each color channel combined in Meade Envisage as collected.
Aligned/combined channels with each other with Meade AutostarSuite.
Import those files to photoshop 7 via FITS Liberator plugin.
Adjusted levels and Curves a bit to balance out the background and bring out the stars
Minor HSL adjustment to taste
Adjusted the levels around some of the stars (see below)
Ran Noel Carboni's "Space Noise Reduction" action
Description: NGC 869 and NGC 884 Cataloged 130 B.C. by Hipparcos
The famous double cluster in Perseus was known in antique times (probably even pre-historically), and first cataloged by the Greek astronomer Hipparcos.
Both clusters are situated in the Perseus OB 1 association, and also only a few hundred light-years appart, at a distance of over 7000 light years. They are both quite young: h is listed at 5.6, chi at 3.2 million years (Sky Catalog 2000); their hottest main sequence stars are of spectral type B0. They are approaching us at 22 (h) and 21 (chi) km/sec, respectively.
