Description: I am wrestling a bit with how I prepped my starless image and then blended the stars, and some other issues with the stars. I doctored up a few stars, but I may need to go back to the drawing board to get this right eventually.
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Description: Applied a touch of SCNR as there was a bit of green cast to the image to my eye.
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Title: Complete reintegration and reprocess from raw data
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This image had a bit of chromatic aberration in the stars, and my earlier processing was just before I had several epiphanies and Russ Croman started really rocking the AP processing world.
I think the CA I get from some of my Newtonian images may be related to flex in the image train and data with limited meridian flips. Maybe the CA balances out when the weight of the camera flexes the focuser both ways? It's not always present. Either way, I used separate RGB integration and it seems to have eliminated it a couple of times now, so this is the start of my workflow every time now.
My previous processing had issues with the stars, I had lost dynamic range in the darkest dust, and the workflow was haphazard and had a lot of mitigation measures taken rather than clean flow. This is why I revisited this.
The new one has much cleaner stars, some variation in shades in the darkest nebula, a lot of small galaxies with a tiny bit of detail in some, and I am pretty happy with the result.
One thing that was nice is that I had really suffered through trying to use traditional deconvolution in the original. It was very difficult to get the result that I wanted and not wind up with rings around the stars, even using deringing. Using BlurXTerminator made this step in the process a breeze!
Please take a moment to zoom in and check out the detail! I *might* have "discovered" a tiny planetary nebula, but I haven't finished searching Aladin/SIMBAD. It's probably just another tiny galaxy anyways.
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Description: Improved detail and contrast in core of brightest nebula with masked HDRMT.
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