ST80 Veil Nebula

[Rudeviewer]

Here is a short veil nebula on the st80.  Quickly processed in PI and sized in photoshop.

21 x 2:00 min 1600ISO unguided no calib files

[Stardust]

that's good to show what can be done with such a humble little scope

[Rudeviewer]

Definitely.  I can't wait for my first APO.  It'll be a while since they are pretty pricy though, so this will have to suffice for now, lol.

[lensman57]

Here is a short veil nebula on the st80.  Quickly processed in PI and sized in photoshop.

21 x 2:00 min 1600ISO unguided no calib files

Veilpixdbesat1st.png

Hi,

I played a bit with your image and removed the halos of the ST80, removed the green cast, enhanced the red and reduced the stars. Now you have an ST 80 APO. Hope you don't mind.

Nice image for such short integration time.

Regards,

A.G

[Rudeviewer]

No I do not mind at all....Wow, if you don't mind me asking, how did you remove halos, and such? 

[lensman57]

No I do not mind at all....Wow, if you don't mind me asking, how did you remove halos, and such? 

The lazy way is to use Noel Carboni's actions. The other way is to use dust and scratches to pick out the stars, smooth, feather and use any tool to do with colour to remove the blue. The rest was done by layer masking , and then using the selective colour tool to mess about with the red and blue. There is also a tool called HLVG that removes the green cast, you can google and download it for free. With about 25 or 30 more subs you will have a very clean image and a better S/N ratio will allow you to stretch the data a bit further.

Regards,

A.G

[Rudeviewer]

I do have noel's actions, I completely forgot to use them.  I was not aware of HVLG but I will go and find it now.  Thank you for the information. 

[Rudeviewer]

Had my hand at a few of noels actions on this one to see what I could get out of it.  Upped the red and the blue and did a halo removal and a dust and scratches to reduce the stars.  Looks better.