Western Veil

[Rodd]

I found this data on my hard drive-I never processed more than the Ha due to only having 4 OIII subs.  I decided to give it another try, hoping that my processing had improved to the point where I could get something passable out of it.  I lost some FOV due to poor framing, and the OIII subs could only be calibrated with a master dark--the flats were lost with my external hard drive.

TOA 130 with .7x reducer and STT 8300 with 3nm Astrodon filters

Ha: 9 30 min

OIII: 4 30 min

 

 

 

[souls33k3r]

Slightly noisy but mate will take nothing away from your processing skills. Absolutely stunning mate. 

[upahill]

Jaw droppingly brilliant imo. Congrats.

[Rodd]

3 hours ago, souls33k3r said:

Slightly noisy but mate will take nothing away from your processing skills. Absolutely stunning mate. 

Thanks. Yeah the noise is pervasive 

[Rodd]

2 hours ago, upahill said:

Jaw droppingly brilliant imo. Congrats.

Thanks upahill!

Rodd

[Rodd]

6 hours ago, souls33k3r said:

Slightly noisy but mate will take nothing away from your processing skills. Absolutely stunning mate. 

Cleaned it up a bit--not perfect.  I have trouble with bicolor anyway--and this one has only 4 subs of OIII.  So Tough for me.

 

 

[souls33k3r]

9 minutes ago, Rodd said:

Cleaned it up a bit--not perfect.  I have trouble with bicolor anyway--and this one has only 4 subs of OIII.  So Tough for me.

 

Eek!!! You call that a bit? Dang mate! You've cleaned it all I swear if you hadn't mentioned 4 subs, no one would've noticed it what did you use for noise reduction and sharpening? 

[Rodd]

2 minutes ago, souls33k3r said:

Eek!!! You call that a bit? Dang mate! You've cleaned it all I swear if you hadn't mentioned 4 subs, no one would've noticed it what did you use for noise reduction and sharpening? 

The only thing I did to the first image I posted was mask off the nebula and use a pixel math formula that removes “mottling” in background. It works pretty well. The I dropped the black point just a bit because the pixel math formula tends to lighten the background (kind of normalizes it so it can get a bit brighter)

[Rodd]

12 hours ago, souls33k3r said:

Eek!!! You call that a bit? Dang mate! You've cleaned it all I swear if you hadn't mentioned 4 subs, no one would've noticed it what did you use for noise reduction and sharpening? 

I think this is a bit better-more realistic

 

 

[Rodd]

I was able to upsample so the image is closer to its Bin1 size (I had software binned 2x2 due to the noise)-so full resolution will be much larger.  This is the final image upsampled, slight boost in red and sharpened