Title: Process with no separation of stars/galaxies
Description: Stretching was controlled as well as possible to minimize background while bringing out fainter trails of NGC 5195 and M 51.
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Title: Process using separation of stars/galaxies
Description:
Stretching used masked stretch followed by arcsinh stretches, with stars separated. Found that excess background red could be removed via pixel math for both parts but later added SCNR at the end with a nice mask to finish that off. Recombination used a power equation which de-emphasized the stars, especially over the galaxies.
Further work continues on stretching as well as the timing of various processes (e.g. best point to initially sharpen the image--I have found each choice comes with a compromise).
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Title: Process using separation of stars/galaxies
Description:
This is actually a revision of my original final--Astrobin wouldn't handle an update of that image.)
Stretching used masked stretch followed by arcsinh stretches, with stars separated. Found that excess background red could be removed via pixel math for both parts but later added SCNR at the end with a nice mask to finish that off. Recombination used a power equation which de-emphasized the stars, especially over the galaxies.
Further work continues on stretching as well as the timing of various processes (e.g. best point to initially sharpen the image--I have found each choice comes with a compromise).
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