Elephant's Trunk widefield - completed

[mightymonoped]

Managed to grab more data last night to try to bring out the colour. Tracking and guiding were much better after adjusting a few hardware and software issues.

 

81 x 120s lights + calibration

 

Samyang 135 @ f2.8

Optolong L-pro filter

ASI 294mc pro @ unity gain -10C

Skywatcher StarAdventurer tracker

 

Stacked and processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Starnet ++ and Photoshop CC

Tony

[mightymonoped]

I thought this might be worth trying instead of creating a luminance layer from the red channel, I registered the first nights image against this one and merged it at about 40% opacity to bring out some of the highlights, sort of like luminance.