Cygnus Wall - SHO Style

[Grifflin]

Hi All

First time putting my head above the parapet in this topic and thought I would do it with this attempt on the Cygnus Wall.

Conditions:  98% Moon.  High cloud/haze developing throughout the session. Bortle 4/5

Equipment:  SW 80ED, ZWO294MC, iOptron CEM70

Image:  73 x 300s (L-Extreme) (total integration - 6hrs 5mins)  plus 30 x 60s (UV/IR cut).  All done in one night

Processing:  All done in PixInsight.  Processed in an SHO style (shout out to @Luke Newbould for his YT tutorial...slightly adapted for this version)

This was my first time with the L-Extreme filter and have to say was very impressed even for my Bortel 4/5 location.  Also first time with autofocus!  Decided to take some 'natural' RGB subs with just a UV/IR cut and then I replaced the L-Extreme stars with the 'natural' stars in the final image.

Challenge I have is that I have a lot of artefacts around the brighter stars and some weird stuff going on elsewhere.  Might be something to do with how Starnet works.

Comment/critique welcome and interested what you feel about replacing the stars with the 'natural' version.

Neil

[peter shah]

great job on that....I like your framing

[Grifflin]

8 minutes ago, peter shah said:

great job on that....I like your framing

Thanks Peter......to be completely honest, I did crop it a bit.  🙂

[Luke Newbould]

Great job mate, really lovely result! - I know what you mean about Starnet sometimes giving artefacts too, it can be challenging for sure at times!