Moth to the flame

[Hals]

IC405

8hrs SHO but processed with more muted colour than I normally would.

Imaged over two nights, 1\2nd & 6\7th Dec.

Pete.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Hals
grammar!

[scotty38]

Nice image. How do you combine the different nights, all together at the start or do you process per night then combine. Which is the best way in fact?

[Hals]

6 minutes ago, scotty38 said:

Nice image. How do you combine the different nights, all together at the start or do you process per night then combine. Which is the best way in fact?

Personally I combine them together after I've collected all the data, when I'm ready to process.

This way it doesn't matter when the data was taken, could be months or even years apart - as long as you have the original subs (and calibration frames) to re-stack with.

There are actually a few SII subs in here from February this year.

Others may do it a different way but this seems to work for me. 

I use DSS & PS and so haven't dabbled into the dark art of PixInsight... yet!

[scotty38]

Sorry I think you answered but I meant would you combine all night 1 separately to night 2 and then combine the 2 resulting images or would you mix both nights images and then process in one go.

[Hals]

23 minutes ago, scotty38 said:

Sorry I think you answered but I meant would you combine all night 1 separately to night 2 and then combine the 2 resulting images or would you mix both nights images and then process in one go.

The latter 👍

[scotty38]

Great thank you.