Astroarg Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 This was my first process fully in PixInsight, from the ground up This image contains - NGC 2237 – Part of the nebulous region (Also used to denote whole nebula) - NGC 2238 – Part of the nebulous region - NGC 2239 – Part of the nebulous region - NGC 2244 – The open cluster within the nebula - NGC 2246 – Part of the nebulous region Approximately 5000 light years away from Earth and spans 130 light years in diameter Only 90 mins and still noisy as needs more data adding. Probably wont be adding to this until Winter 2021... (hopefully it's still there) Captured on 24-25th March 2021, between a glaring streetlight and a very bright moon! Altair Astro 72EDF Altair Astro 183C Camera @-10c Altair Astro 1x flattener OptoLong L-Extreme filter (HA/OIII 7nm) iOptron CEM25P mount Captured in NINA, 30 x 180s exposures First run in PI, including WBPP, EZ scripts and some basic processing, before getting scared and exporting as is... slightly touched up in LR 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabs Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 That is impressive! Very well done! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrobdlbug Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 You definately have a lot to be very pleased with in this image, focus, framing, detail, colour pallette choice and a full process in Pi, however, with just a few more processing steps I think you can make some significant improvements. You've got to this point, get back into Pi - its not that scary really..... and give these few processes a go - I think you will be pleasantly surprised as to what is left to give in the small but quality dataset in your image SCNR to remove the green cast BackgroundNeutralization to get a reasonable black point. (use a small preview of only background as the reference image in the process) TGVDenoise a light noise reduction as you say its a 90min image, but NR can really help in moderation Scripts - DarkStructureEnhance - just apply it with default settings CurvesTransformationa using bit of saturation , again to personal taste, but the colour pallete you have selected would benefit IMHO. I have done these steps above and this is the result, 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astroarg Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 On 4/1/2021 at 3:44 PM, Astrobdlbug said: You definately have a lot to be very pleased with in this image, focus, framing, detail, colour pallette choice and a full process in Pi, however, with just a few more processing steps I think you can make some significant improvements. You've got to this point, get back into Pi - its not that scary really..... and give these few processes a go - I think you will be pleasantly surprised as to what is left to give in the small but quality dataset in your image SCNR to remove the green cast BackgroundNeutralization to get a reasonable black point. (use a small preview of only background as the reference image in the process) TGVDenoise a light noise reduction as you say its a 90min image, but NR can really help in moderation Scripts - DarkStructureEnhance - just apply it with default settings CurvesTransformationa using bit of saturation , again to personal taste, but the colour pallete you have selected would benefit IMHO. I have done these steps above and this is the result, Thanks for this.. i haven’t had much time with moving and not moving then possibly moving to be told delayed.. I may have a look later as have some older content I want to run through PI 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Very nice, don't be scared to play with PI. If you mess it up you can just go back to any point and try again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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