Title: IC 1396 - 2 more nights
Description: Will eventually be an SHO image of the Elephant's Trunk nebula. This is just a quick processing of 4 nights of data (Ha/OIII), uploading to see how more integration helps. Processing was very minimal: Dynamic Crop, ABE, Auto STF stretch applied, Pixel Math used to create 2 intermediate images (Foraxx HOO blend and a HOO blend with Ha in R, .35 Ha +.65 OIII in G, and OIII in B). The two intermediate images were blended 50/50, Curves adjusted. Note, no noise reduction etc in these early images. Goal is obtain 20+ hours on each channel before final processing, I just need the NC skies to cooperate.
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Title: IC 1396 - SII added
Description:
Gathered some SII last night. Just to get a quick look, followed the same minimal processing as the previous versions.
Stayed with a blend of standard SHO and Foraxx SHO - 50:50 and slight curves.
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Title: IC 1396 - 7 nights
Description: Added more OIII and SII. More basic processing but, this time I did do some noise reduction using a trial version of NoiseXterminator. I cropped the masters, blended SHO and Foraxx SHO images at 50:50, ran noiseXterminator, minor curves, local histogram equalization, and star reduction.
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Title: IC 1396 - SHO
Description:
Added more Ha last night. In total gathered 11 hours of Ha, 9.4 hours (113/133 frames) used. Total SII was 4.6 hours and 3.75 hours (45/56 frames) were usable. OIII, I gathered 13.1 hours and used 9.3 hours (112/158 frames).
Stacked and processed in Pixinsight. Stacked, calibrated, and aligned with WBPP, NSG was used prior to integration. Masters were cropped and ABE was applied. Used pixel math to create a SHO image as well as a Foraxx blend of SHO. LRGB was used to add Ha back into both and they were blended together with pixel math at 50:50. The blended image had noise reduction using noiseXterminator, curves, magenta removal and Local Histogram Equalization.
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