420 one minute exposures (7 hours of integration time)
Bortle 6 skies
Equipment
- Scope: Askar FRA300
- Main Camera: ZWO ASI585MC
- Filter: Optolong UV-IR Cut Filter 2”
- Mount: ZWO AM5
- Guide Scope: SVBONY SV165
- Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM
- Other Equipment: ASI Air plus, ZWO m42x0.75 filter drawer, Dew Not dew heaters, Jackery Explorer 300 power bank
Processing done in Pixinsight
- Weighted Batch Preprocessing
- Dynamic Crop
- Image Solver
- Graxpert Background Extraction
- Spectrophotometric Color Calibration
- BlurXterminator
- Graxpert Noise Reduction
- Strength 0.75
- Latest ai model
- Statistical Stretch
- Adjusted target median to desired level
- SNCR
- Starnet Star Removal
- Curves Transformation – RGBK increasing brightness of brighter pixels and decreasing brightness of darker pixels
- Generate grey image for mask
- Curves Transformation
- Increase color saturation on starless image
- Decrease color saturation of background
- Increase color saturation on starmask
- Pixel math to add stars back
- Star reduction
- One more round of graxpert denoising
by E_Dward