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Ha Processing of the Horsehead Nebula - Still not totally satisfied!, Kurt Zeppetello
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Ha Processing of the Horsehead Nebula - Still not totally satisfied!

Ha Processing of the Horsehead Nebula - Still not totally satisfied!, Kurt Zeppetello
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Ha Processing of the Horsehead Nebula - Still not totally satisfied!

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I have recently been shooting Ha-images with a 7 nm Astronmik clip in filter and a Canon T3i/600D modified camera. The setup is attached to an Orion ED80 f/7.5 refractor. I have seen other Ha images with quite stunning results and my images look much less impressive. There is more detail than the RGB image I took but I was hopping for more.

Here is an image of 5.8 hrs.

I have other images using stacking raw exposures super pixel mode and stacking tiff exposures default settings which can be viewed on my website: http://kurt-zeppetello.blogspot.com/2018/01/ha-processing-difficulties.html

I have been converting all of my RGB images to tiff and then stacking them as I like the way the stars look better. The Tiff method does look smoother, however, stacking raw images seems to give more detail in Ha. It is just the crunchy look that I am concerned with. Not sure if it my camera or if my processing is horrible. I should mention my camera is a 5-year old work horse and I plan on getting a new monochrome CMOS as soon as finances are available. If any one has any thoughts I would appreciate them.

I will combine this with RGB data to see if there is positive enhancement.

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