Contains:  Extremely wide field
Summer Triangle, Astro_Escape

Summer Triangle

Summer Triangle, Astro_Escape

Summer Triangle

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Description

Back in June, my brother, a friend, and myself went camping. While there, I knew it was going to be clear so I had to ask the owner if there was somewhere in his fields (the campground is on land owned by a farmer) I could do some astrophotography. Apparently, he has a spot alongside one of the roads through his fields just for people like me. I tried to get a Milky Way shot, but even 40 miles away the light pollution bubble from Pittsburgh was just too bright. The sky above was roughly Bortle 4-5. So, I pointed up The Summer Triangle.

10 light frames at 2 minutes 15 seconds

6 darks

Stacked in Sequator:

Auto Brightness

HDR

Remove Dynamic Noises

Reduce Distortion

Mild light pollution reduction

Post in Pixinsight and Photoshop:

PI:

Crop, Dynamic Background Extraction, Background Neutralization, Color calibration, Multiscale Linear Transform (both luminance and chrominance for noise reduction), Star Mask, Morphological Transformation, Color Saturation, Dark Structure Enhance Script, SCNR, Histogram Transformation, Pixel Math for slight brightness reduction.

Photoshop:

Slight clarity bump, slight adjustments of reds and magentas to bring them out.

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Summer Triangle, Astro_Escape