M16 Eagle Nebula in HOO

[mightymonoped]

This is a combination of three sessions, including just over an hours worth from last night. I culled the subs down to around 3 hours worth in Astro Pixel Processor and stacked and integrated as HOO Colour. A little bit of light-pollution adjustment in APP before handing over to PI for the processing.

NoiseX at 14%

then BlurX with stars at 10% and process first as yes.

NoiseX at default

Stretched using Bill Blanshan's scripts before passing the saved Tiff file over to Photoshop for finishing touches.

StarX first

Create starlayer

Starless layer - match colour to bring up the saturation without introducing too much noise

Minor adjustments to Contrast, Brightness

Clean up strayer and reduce star size before merging back using screen blend mode

Address remaining flatness and edge issues using Astro Flat Pro plugin

Final reduction of stars before saving

SW80ED Pro (gold)

ASI294 mc pro

Optolong l-eNhance filter

EQ6-R Pro mount

ASIair Pro - capture and guiding

Tony