Trying the new optolong L enhance

[At dusk]

Hi.

I received this filter on friday. I had serious doubts  about the purchase because I intend to use it with my unmodified canon 200d and with my asi1600MM in front of the RGB filters. And I am  not sure if this filter will work properly with this set up.

I tried it yesterday and it really has surprised me. This is M42,  25 x 45", no flats, no bias and instead of darks I left automatic noise reduction. Almost unprocessed. Only stacked iin DSS, BDE in pixinsight and curves in Photoshop.

The most suprising thing is that M42 was close to an 80% illuminated moon.  Under these circumstances, I think the result exceeds my expectations.

Thanks for looking

Edited December 8, 2019 by At dusk

[alan potts]

Keep looking at this myself but the more I read about some of the other filters the more confused I get, seems a very good result considering the Moon.

Alan

[Adreneline]

Nice result, especially considering the moon being in attendance!

Hope you don't mind but if you back off the black point a little quite a lot more of the surrounding nebulosity starts to appear. I've attached a .tif of your image with the black point set at 23:23:23 or there about followed by a little bit of noise reduction and a tiny tweak of the blue histogram to try to line them all up.

Adrian

m42.tif

[At dusk]

Of course I don't mind. I always appreciate this kind of advice in order to improve my skills.

Regards