Mel 15 under bright moon NB Bin x2

[Star101]

Taken the night of 17/18 Sept 19.

15 x 120s Bin x2 (1.5 hours total ) SHO Astrodon Tru Balance

ZWO ASI 183mm Pro

TS 65EQ 420mm APO

Mesu 200

Pixinsight

Thanks for looking.

[tooth_dr]

Hi David, thats a really nice view of it, I like the framing a lot.  Pretty impressive for 1.5 hours!  I think I would prefer a little more grain in the image.

[Star101]

1 hour ago, tooth_dr said:

Hi David, thats a really nice view of it, I like the framing a lot.  Pretty impressive for 1.5 hours!  I think I would prefer a little more grain in the image.

Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated. I agree about the grain. It lost some detail by being smoothed out a little. I may go back to this when the skies cloud over

[knobby]

I really like that, I'm so tempted to get an O3 and S2 filter to go with my Ha.

[Star101]

2 hours ago, knobby said:

I really like that, I'm so tempted to get an O3 and S2 filter to go with my Ha.

Thanks knobby,

Although Ha alone is a great filter adding the O3 and S2 makes images much more vivid  I recommend them.

[wimvb]

Very nice indeed. I agree with @tooth_dr, you could turn noise reduction down a notch. You also seem to have lost sharpness in the very heart of the heart. But all in all, a great image.

Just for fun, have you tried the kappa-sigma noise reduction in MLT in PixInsight? It's very easy and gives very good results when used on the linear image. Use it with either a mask or the built in linear mask of MLT.

Edited September 19, 2019 by wimvb

[Star101]

No, I have not used it. I will give kippa-sigma a try.

Thanks

Dave