Soul Nebula Ha Asi1600

[Allinthehead]

Managed to get 7hrs 50mins worth of subs on this last night. Most of it while asleep. Woke up at 6 this morning like a child at Christmas impetuously unwrapping what had been left for me overnight. Really happy with the result despite the obvious flaws in my processing.

Sw 80ed with .85 ff giving 510mm f/6.4

Zwo Asi1600 with astrodon 5nm ha

Az eq6

Captured with SGPRO

Stacked in DSS

Processed in photoshop

235 * 120 second exposures at gain 300 offset 15 cooled to -30

70 * flats

70 * darks

100 * bias

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Allinthehead]

Is this version better? More noise reduction and contrast

[Gina]

Great

[PatrickGilliland]

Excellent results.  A target I have yet to get anywhere close to a good image with!  I like the amount of contrast you have generated think that will hold up really well in the final colour image. Paddy

[Allinthehead]

8 hours ago, Gina said:

Great

Thanks Gina

7 hours ago, PatrickGilliland said:

Excellent results.  A target I have yet to get anywhere close to a good image with!  I like the amount of contrast you have generated think that will hold up really well in the final colour image. Paddy

Cheers Paddy. Do you think it might be a touch noisy as i stretched quite hard to get the detail? I applied very little noise reduction.

[PatrickGilliland]

46 minutes ago, Allinthehead said:

Thanks Gina

Cheers Paddy. Do you think it might be a touch noisy as i stretched quite hard to get the detail? I applied very little noise reduction.

Possibly yes but there data is OK just a case of finding the happy medium now

Paddy

[Allinthehead]

How's this? Combined with smoothed layer.