North America and Pelican Nebulas - SHO
Final test that's impressed me with the new flattener, now I'm faced with weeks of cloud and rain {cry}
1hr 45 on North America and Pelican nebulas. I've tamed some halos - not sure what has caused these.. oddly one shoots off towards bottom left and the others towards the top right. Corner stars are far better now!
Altair 72EDF scope + dedicated 1x flattener
Altair 26C camera + Altair filtertray w/ Altair DuoBand HA/OIII
iOptron CEM25P mount
Guided by PHD2 with Altair MG32 package
Captured in NINA (21 x 300s)
Fully processed in PI start to finish - (inc. Darks and Flats)
PI Process WBPP, EZ Denoise and soft-stretch, then:
Star XTerminator on RGB image to keep star mask. Reset image back to containing stars. Star mask image rename to SM
Channel Extraction R,G,B. Delete B
Star XTerminator on channels R and G
S Curve on G to brighten the nebula and darken the background in line with the R channel
Dark Structure script on R
Pixelmath r*0.6+g*0.4
Rename G to B and new image to G
LRGB of R,R,G,B
Additional stretching. Rename to SHO
Photometric Colour Calibration on SM
Pixelmath SHO+SM
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