I'm surprised I could get such nice results from my Bortle 9 location (Paris city center), but this object was brighter that I thought! I'm missing a lot of the faint nebulosity but I'm quite happy with it for now 🙂
(In this case, the narrowband normalization script worked much better before than after stretching)
Equipment and data acquisition:
– Seestar S50, EQ mode, 30 sec subs
– Askar C1 filter with a 3D-printed filter holder
– Roughly 9.5 hours of acquisition, bortle 9
Processing (PI)
– WBPP 2x drizzle
– SetiAstro Auto DBE, BlurX (correct only)
– Narrowband normalization (HOO)
– StarX
– SetiAstro statistical stretch
– Curves transformation with various range and color masks; HDR multiscale transform; NoiseX
– Stars: SetiAstro Star stretch, reduced saturation
– Star recombination in Siril , retouches with curves transformation and in LightRoom
by Techno-Scientist