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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

20210325-HOO1.png

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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,

20210325-HOO1.png.Astrobdlbug_Pi_process.thumb.png.e3f8db411f29bea6aa70d22ca290bf20.png

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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,

20210325-HOO1.png.Astrobdlbug_Pi_process.thumb.png.e3f8db411f29bea6aa70d22ca290bf20.png

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 👍

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