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[alacant]

Steady enough last night for long focal lengths and with dry westerlies this close to a new moon? Can't be true. The background seems awash with light. Almost certainly wrong curves values but has anyone else found that? I wonder if another session is worth it; we want to get the Helix nebula before it gets too far west and unless the dew point suddenly moves, it's looking good again later... Dunno. Anyway, thanks for looking an of course, clear skies.

700d on 250p, 2 hours in alicante-cls pallete 

**EDIT: added another 2 hours...

 

[jjosefsen]

Some fine structure you got there, the blues look a little green on my phone maybe.. How much integration time?
The background looks ok to me, but I see what you mean, could it be faint dust?

 

[alacant]

7 minutes ago, jjosefsen said:

How much integration time?

Hi and thanks for the input. It's about 2 hours.

I think the beginners' temptation -me certainly- is to denoise to death and in so doing lose the detail. On ths one I didn't.

 

[jjosefsen]

Double or triple the exposure and it will really pop! Should also help with the noise quite a bit, two hours isn't much with a DSLR.