A friend's IC1396

[Jonk]

A friend of mine sent me his latest effort a couple of nights ago.

IC1396, using an early Star 71 / Moravian G2-8300 / Astrodon 5nm ha, 3nm OIII, 5nm SII - 20 x 1800s per filter. All riding on a Mesu e200.

Some of the imaging time was low in the sky and also below the pole at times.

As I often do, I asked if I could have the master integrations to see what I could so with it, and here's my processing effort:

I struggled with the magenta on the sides and overall I suppose and didn't spend any time on background extraction. This is all in the name of practice. He's a self confessed saturation guy whereas I prefer not to push it too much.

All processing for his was in PI I believe, mine was a combination of PI and Lightroom.

[Ollyb]

I love the diversity of all these images...
Wide angle image I’ve just completed using Redcat 51.. Only 4 hours of integration so ‘work in progress’

[Jonk]

Well I had another go at the process, I missed something out the first time around and it made a huge difference!

There are a fair few artifacts if you look closely, and I think this is from Starnet, but not entirely sure. I've also poked the stars a bit too much, but only really noticeable when zooming in. 100% is ok though.

Anyway, I'm much happier with this version. Click to open full size if you like.

Edited May 14, 2021 by Jonk
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