Pickerings Triangle RGB au natural - first process in Pixinsight (Steen Knarberg)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: NGC 6979

Pickerings Triangle RGB au natural - first process in Pixinsight, Steen Knarberg

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Pickerings Triangle RGB au natural - first process in Pixinsight

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Pickerings Triangle RGB au natural - first process in Pixinsight

This is my first process and edit in Pixinsight, which was a bit different than what I've been used to in Astro Pixel Processor. I followed Adam Blocks Fast Track training, very good and very, very detailed instructions. Thanks Adam 😀

So far I'm impressed by the features, and among them all I really like photometric color calibration, which I've used here to try to get as close as possible to true colors for both Nebulae and background, which also holds a lot of thinner hydrogen plumes across the field.

What I also noticed before I did star reduction, is that the stars airy disc generally look better after stretch than in APP. What puzzles me is why star alignment were messed up a few placed and in the extreme corners becoming distorted/elongated, which they are not in the subs. I have to dig into this.

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