Serious OIII issues? HOO combination looks terrible

[Danield06]

Hello,

 

I have been having terrible trouble getting HOO data of the heart nebula. This is an almost 9 hour integration of OII and yet the data looks awful and the final product is horrendous.

 

I cant seem to figure out what I am doing wrong The background is totally washed with blue, and the signal is totally weak/noisy. For almost 9 hours I was expecting MUCH better. Its totally washing out my Ha data as well, perosnally I think this image is atrocious and its certainly annoying me for almost a total of 20hrs integration. In fact, I had had much smaller integrations turn out much better. SO I am really at a loss and want to shut the door on this data and scrap it all. 

Here is the process

- Decon
- MLT Noise Reduction
- Stretch
- Starnet+ star removal
- Combine RGB
- Color saturation/hue adjustment
- Sharpening & Unsharp
- Create synthetic luminance with stars & blend together
- PS for further and final adjustments

[matt_baker]

Are you able to provide the raw stacked files and I'll see if I can pinpoint the issue?