This is a collaborative project with fellow astrobin user @mackiedlm who's other fine work can be found here:
https://www.astrobin.com/users/mackiedlm/I acquired all of this data over the course of one evening/morning on June 13th & 14th, 2021.
Here are my details on the acquisition of the data.
StellarVue SV70T APO, ZWO 1600mm camera, Baader Filters, CGX Mount, Captured using NINA.
10x 60second - Lum
30x 120seconds ea. - RGB
10x 300seconds Ha
Total Integration Time = 4hours
- SQL Reading 20.90 85°f
David's notes on the post-processing of the data:
Channel combine to RGB- I used a Pixelmath combine of 70%Ha and 30% lum as the red - this was to start reducing the stars.
RGB -
Light HT to stretch
Starnet to remove stars and make starmask
CT for contarst and sat on starless
SCNR and CT for sat on stars
Recombined using Chanel combine
Convolution to blur
CT to increase sat
Then on the the Ha_Lum (70/30) ;
Decon
EZdenoise
HT, Ct
LHE to improve contrast
Then LRGB to combine the 70/30 lum with the blurred RGB
some minor tweaks in CT to improve balance
I then saved as a 16b tiff and went in to Photoshop where I did a selective high pass routine to enhance the structure in the nebs then saved as final
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