As mentioned in my recent image of NGC 457
here, I picked up a second hand SW 150-PDS at the start of November and finally had the chance over the last few weeks to show it some clear skies. At least, it seemed clear but reviewing the sub afterwards showed how mixed conditions were. From the 9 hours captured, I settled on ~6 hours of subs - the best of a bad bunch!
As always, it would be great to capture more data on this but it's probably time to call it for now... with one eye on a better evening and trying a few more subs to compare.
Captured with the ZWO ASIAIR, pre-processed in APP and processed in PixInsight.
I used BlurXTerminator with lower settings and saw a slight improvement in NGC 891 and a noticeable one in star sizes. Stars were also blended from two different stretches. I spent some extra time on NGC 906 and NGC 914 with their own masks to increase colour and try and bring out a little more structure.
Thanks for looking.
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