My first meridian flip.
I usually shoot 120 seconds. These are 300 seconds, so it's more difficult to guide and more likely to have unwanted artifacts. And my guiding had some big problems, and a plane flew in the middle of at least one of the shots. So I kept only a fraction of what I shot.
On the other hand, I seem to have captured a surprising amount of depth.
Processing steps (basically
Cuiv's technique):
1. WeightedBatchPreprocessing with "Caibrate Only"
2. SubFrame Selector
3. Star Alignment
4. Local Normalization
5. Image Integration
6. Drizzle Integration
7. Dynamic Crop
8. EZ Deconvoloution
9. EZ Denoise
10. EZ Soft Stretch
11. Pixel Math to combine mono images to RGB
12. Curves Transformation
13. Clone then StarNet++ to remove stars
14. Pixel Math "RGB - Starless" to create a star-only image
15. On Starless, boost color with Color Saturation
16. On Stars-only, reduce color saturation and use Morphological Transformation to reduce star sizes
17. Pixel Math to recombine stars with starless
18. DarkStructureEnhance
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