M78 Nebula

Roughly 8 hours of integration from a Bortle 4 location. It was not an easy target to process, but I'm pretty happy with the results!

Equipment:
– Seestar S50 in EQ mode (UV/IRcut filter)
– 20 sec subs

Processing:
– WBPP, cosmetic correction (3 sigma), no drizzle (2x-drizzle data gave worse results)
– SPCC and SNCR
– BlurX
– SetiAstro AutoDBE
– StarX
– Starless: noiseX, multiscale adaptive stretch, curves transformation with various range and color masks, HDR multiscale transform
– Stars: SetiAstro star stretch, curves transformation (reduce saturation)
– Star Recombination, final blurX and NoiseX