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Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle, Steven K. Wu
Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle
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Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle

Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle, Steven K. Wu
Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle
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Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle

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Description

Here’s another stab at multiple night sessions at home. It was a total of 148 subframes over 4 nights, and then after running through PixInsight’s SubframeSelector, I used 120 subframes for integration.

Processing:
  • PixInsight Pre-Processing
    • CosmeticCorrection
    • WeightedBatchPreprocessing (WBPP)
    • SubframeSelector
    • StarAlignment
    • LocalNormalization
    • ImageIntegration

  • PixInsight Linear Image Processing
    • PhotometricColorCalibration (PCC)
    • DynamicCrop
    • DynamicBackgroundExtraction (DBE)
    • Deconvolution
    • NoiseXTerminator

  • PixInsight Non-Linear Image Processing
    • HistogramTransformation
    • SCNR
    • StarXTerminator (Starless and StarsOnly)
    • CurvesTransformation (contrast adjustment)
    • LocalHistogramEqualization
    • DarkStructureEnhance
    • CurvesTransformation (color adjustments)
    • PixInsight (Combine Starless and StarsOnly)
    • CurvesTransformation (final brightness/contrast adjustment)
    • NoiseXTerminator (final noise reduction)

  • Adobe Lightroom Classic
    • Crop
    • Export

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Western Veil (Caldwell 34), Eastern Veil (Caldwell 33), Pickering’s Triangle, Steven K. Wu