Elephant’s Trunk Widefield - combined integration

[mightymonoped]

Thought it might be worth having a go at combining the Samyang 135mm and the Redcat captures together to see if anything usable would come out of it.

Still haven't mastered Astro Pixel Processor for this kind of thing yet, but I ended up with something I could work with (once croppped).

This is a fairly drastic crop of  (100 x 60s) + (86 x 120s) subs combined.

Stripped out the stars, fixed the halo on Garnet Star before recombining.

Basic stretches, Camera Raw Filter processing, a bit of Astro Flat Pro to sort out the mosaic artefacts and a small bit of star reduction.

APP, starnet++ & Photoshop

 

Edited July 3, 2021 by mightymonoped

[Carastro]

Looking a bit dark Tony.  Difficult to see much.

 

Carole 

[mightymonoped]

Finding it difficult to get consistency between what I am seeing on my iMac to what end up posted on forums at the moment, particularly this one. 
 

May have to sort it, wipe recent stuff and start again as not happy. 
 

 

[mightymonoped]

Have reposted to see of there’s any difference. 

 

Edited July 3, 2021 by mightymonoped

[TerryMcK]

2 hours ago, mightymonoped said:

difficult to get consistency between what I am seeing on my iMac to what end up posted

I have a Datacolor SpyderX Pro to calibrate my monitors. It works on my mac too. Expensive but well worth the investment if serious about photography.