9 months learning processing

[mackiedlm]

So with nearly all night twilight I am pretty much stuck on reprocessing or doing processing tutorials. I decided to go back to some of my earlier images and see if what I've learned in the last 9 months could be made to show.

This then is the Heart and Soul with my old Pentacon 135mm, stock EOS1100D, Star Adventurer 29 X180s RGB ( OSC ) and 29 x 1080s Ha (Astronomic 12nm Ha clip in). Imaged  in November 2019. Its pretty mediocre data but a good exercise all the same.

Previous rev for comparison

Comments or suggestions for improvement?

 

[x6gas]

The first image looks really good to my eyes.  If I were being really critical then perhaps the background sky is a tad too dark?

Good work though!

[MarkAR]

Very nice, though just a little dark which may have lost you some of the faint nebulosity.

[mackiedlm]

Thanks for the feedback. I think you are right about the background. I really struggled to get the main nebulae to pop without losing the background and fainter neb. I find bringing in the Ha layer always makes the background darker and I'm not sure how to reduce that effect.

[MarkAR]

Maybe stretch the mid-tones of the Ha to lighten the background before integrating it.

 

[MarsG76]

Definite improvement...  you got so much more data in the reprocess.... nice work.