Reprocessing An Old Friend

[rickwayne]

The most successful astroimaging session of my life at that point, this was taken in Big Bend National Park in October 2018 in the darkest skies I've ever seen. I was digging through my back catalogue and said "Huh, I bet I can process that a lot better now". And it only took me an hour or so, too.  Astro Pixel Processor -- I am saying.

You can look in my astrobin for the old image, which had a far harsher contrast in the nebulae and clipped the background egregiously to black.

Pentax K5-iis DSLR, 28x180" at ISO 800, Stellarvue SV70t, guided.

[Atreta]

Beautiful Trifid and Lagoon. Lagoon is one of my  favorites targets.