Dust, dust and more dust. I love dust, but processing it, that's another story. A little project I have been working on for the past month or so. Once moon conditions stopped being favorable, I went to work. For this image, I employed a little trick some of us have been experimenting with.... dividing my luminance data into three seperate stacks, combining them as if they were RGB, and applying DeepSNR to them. DeepSNR requires 3 channels with distinct noise patterns to work, so this effectively is a bit of a cheat to the current version of the tool, but it works extremely well. The Ha data was added to the image using
@Charles Hagen 's methods as outlined on his website:
https://www.nightphotons.com/guides/advanced-narrowband-combinationPersonally, I love the feeling of depth the Hydrogen layer gives this image. It was really neat to see it all come together, the Ha is clearly behind the dust. Colors became a bit of an issue. Personally, I love warm dust, but warm dust requires a significant amount of red, and combine that with the Ha addition to a narrowband image, it became a bit overpowering. I experimented quite a few ways with this one, but ultimately came back to the warm dust. It just didn't feel right with cooler color tones. Also, the pure chaos that's exposed in NGC1333 just drops my jaw. It's amazing. Hope you enjoy this unique view on a fairly common fall target.
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