few shots on Leo area

[Rudeviewer]

Here is like 17 minutes of data shot as 400 iso I think there was 4 images at various lengths.  Tried to get rid of coma and vingnetting  by doing a drop and did a background extraction.  I was going to go for the triplet but it got late quick on me. 

[glowingturnip]

looking pretty good - I should have a go at this target sometime

[Rudeviewer]

I was going to the triplet, but on this particular target there were no stars I could reference on the live view to move the telescope to the correct position to I took what I got. 

[Russe]

Good try. Can't wait for better weather w/o fog or moon.

[Rudeviewer]

Yea this was under a 3/4 moon right in the zenith.  With my new scope I cannot use my 1.25 filters I think I need 2's due to the way the camera hooks up to this scope.  I just bought that 1.25 DOH!

[Langy]

Very nice, keep them coming.

[Rudeviewer]

I figure even if I produce a bad image it will fuel this obsession that I seem that have lol.  Keeps me out of trouble.  Except for with the wife lol.

[glowingturnip]

hope you don't mind, but I did a quick noise reduction in Pixinsight (AWT) and dropped the background a tad:

[Rudeviewer]

Thanks!  That's much better looking.  PixInsight is such a daunting program to try and learn everything.  I have it but I don't know half of what the program can do at this point.  Watched a few tutorials but there is so much that can be done.  Im stickin with it though. 

[glowingturnip]

ahh, you've got Pixinsight !  Here are the settings I used in the Atrous Wavelet Transform and a simple before/after.  Like magic really !  TGV Denoise is even better, but takes a while to configure.  Better to apply the denoise after protecting the stars with a star mask to keep them sharp

There's a bit of large-scale blotch in the background after you do the denoise - probably worth having another go at DBE, maybe after the denoise, to try to flatten it, then you won't have to lower the background as much as I did (though I didn't crop any pixels, honest !)

[Rudeviewer]

Thank you for showing the actual process you used.  That in itself can give me one more step to the things I know how to perform.