M31 in RGBHOO

[mightymonoped]

First attempt at playing with capturing with different filters in the same session. 

This was grabbed last night under fairly horrendous light conditions because of the rising Moon.

An hour's worth of HOO and nearly two hour's worth of RGB using Optolong l-eNhance and L-Pro filters in the ZWO magnetic filter drawer.

WO Redcat and ASI294mc pro on Star Adventurer Tracker.

Stacked, Integrated and combined RGB and HOO using Astro Pixel Processor

Separated star layer in starnet++ and processed in Photoshop CC

Reduced stars and cropped for framing.

 

[wimvb]

Very nice. I like that "fluffy" look that you achieved.

[mightymonoped]

12 minutes ago, wimvb said:

Very nice. I like that "fluffy" look that you achieved.

Haha, that may be a byproduct of processing the arms and lanes separately from the stars. I thought I’d treat it like s nebula and see how it worked. Tried to not push detail and saturation too much and try to keep a sense of 3d (if that makes sense?). 

[wimvb]

27 minutes ago, mightymonoped said:

Tried to not push detail and saturation too much and try to keep a sense of 3d

Mission accomplished, I’d say.

[newbie alert]

Very nice...

 

[mightymonoped]

Reprocessed as LRGB, I think I prefer the detail and colour balance in this version.