Hello,

Finally got some clear skies and what better target to use my new camera and filters on than the first target I ever imaged, IC1805. Processing was done using Pixinsight and some of Russell Croman's tools.

Pretty happy with this result although it can always be better (which is, at the end of the day, what drives us all)
Any thoughts on what I could do differently/add to my workflow to get a better result?

My (somewhat) workflow
-Manual stack
-DBE
-BlurXterminator
-NoiseXterminator
-GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch
-Slight curves adjustment if needed
-Combine with pixelmath

-Create luminance channel with pixelmath
-StarnetV2
-LocalHistrogramEqualization (masked)
-Unsharpmask (masked)
-Slight curves adjustment if needed
-Add luminance to color image using LRGBCombination
-Add stars with pixelmath

-Aditional curves (saturation and hue) and unsharpmask if needed (both masked)


Do I remove the stars of every filter separately or only do that after combining into a color image?
Only denoise the luminance channel to keep as much as detail as possible or denoise every filter before combining?



Link to the full resolution image:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/dob1tv/0/?mod=&real=IC1805.jpg

Thanks and clear skies!
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