I recently had a fairly major surgery and haven’t been able to image in quite some time, so I have been going back and reprocessing old data, and I am finding I am much happier with my recent results. This was originally imaged back in Sept and Oct 2022.
126 x 300s Ha
86 x 300s Oiii
41 x 600s Sii
90 x 60s Red
90 x 60s Green
90 x 60s Blue
30 flats for each filter, 91 darks (61 x 300s and 30 x 600s), 60 dark flats
Celestron 8″ EdgeHD
ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ASI294MM Pro, ASI174MM Mini for guiding, EAF, EFW
Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro
Pegasus Power Box advance
Processed entirely in Pixinsight.
Nebula Processing:
Weighted Batch Pre Processing to stack (Ha, Oiii, Sii, R, G, B).
StarXterminator on each channel. Discard stars on Ha, Oiii and Sii, discard backgrounds on R, G, and B.
NoiseXterminator on each channel
LRGB Combine (no Luminance, Sii in R, Ha in G, Oiii in B)
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I recently had a fairly major surgery and haven’t been able to image in quite some time, so I have been going back and reprocessing old data, and I am finding I am much happier with my recent results. This was originally imaged back in Sept and Oct 2022.
126 x 300s Ha
86 x 300s Oiii
41 x 600s Sii
90 x 60s Red
90 x 60s Green
90 x 60s Blue
30 flats for each filter, 91 darks (61 x 300s and 30 x 600s), 60 dark flats
Celestron 8″ EdgeHD
ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ASI294MM Pro, ASI174MM Mini for guiding, EAF, EFW
Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro
Pegasus Power Box advance
Processed entirely in Pixinsight.
Nebula Processing:
Weighted Batch Pre Processing to stack (Ha, Oiii, Sii, R, G, B).
StarXterminator on each channel. Discard stars on Ha, Oiii and Sii, discard backgrounds on R, G, and B.
NoiseXterminator on each channel
LRGB Combine (no Luminance, Sii in R, Ha in G, Oiii in B)
Automatic Background Extraction
Correct Magenta stars to get rid of purple tint.
Histogram and Curves adjustments
Stars Processing:
LRGB Combine RGB channels
StarXterminator
Manual stretch on the stars
Pixel Math to combine stars and nebula.