Here comes my brand new version of Andromeda! I added a second night and went through a super complicated processing flow.
The second night I captured a lot of data, but due to moonlight the colors were super nasty. So I stacked both nights and used it as luminance, while I used the color only from the first night without moon. This helped a lot in getting a less-noise image with beautiful colors. I also blended in a lot of steps, using Topaz Deniose AI, HLVG, PS Lab mode processing and lost of Atronomy Tools actions. The popping of the colors and constrasts was achieved in Luminar Flex.
I will continue with this, because I think there is still a lot of improvement possible. There are still many noise artifacts and a moon night is not the best database.. Stacking so different datasets is also not the coolest idea, I guess. And the first dataset had neither darks nor actual flats. So I will spend another night and maybe even more!
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