Two weeks with M27 Dumbbell Nebula

[matthasboldlygone]

After a couple of weeks and 3 or 4 good sessions outside I think it's time to move on from M27. Must have processed, stacked and stretched the images a 100 times now in a combination of Siril, Pixinsight and Photoshop. Various image sets from 30 seconds to 1 minute taken on multiple nights. Probably 1.5 hours used on these images.

Bresser AR 102/600 - Bresser HD Camera (sony imx290) - Siril, Pixinsight, Photoshop
30sec - 1min + a few darks

Quite like this one but the star is big..

A nice apple core floating in space

And maybe the best I could get at the moment with the help of Pixinsight (not that Pixinsight is very 'helpful' , bizarre software design)

Looking forward to getting a guide camera and being able to take longer exposures without trailing stars.

For now time to find something new

 

[Adreneline]

Nice image - really well framed. I think the first one is the best of the bunch.

You can reduce the star colour fringes using a Noise filter:

 

You might want to experiment with the Reduce Colour Noise slider. Works better on some images than others.

Adrian

P.S. Apologies if you already know this trick.

 

Edited August 23, 2020 by Adreneline
Clarification

[Mick J]

First one for me, so nice to see the stars in the Nebula, good work.

[matthasboldlygone]

On 23/08/2020 at 14:30, Adreneline said:

Nice image - really well framed. I think the first one is the best of the bunch.

You can reduce the star colour fringes using a Noise filter:

You might want to experiment with the Reduce Colour Noise slider. Works better on some images than others.

Adrian

P.S. Apologies if you already know this trick.

 

Thanks, I've been playing with noise filters, like you say seems to work better sometimes than others. Much more to learn about noise in general 👍