eastern veil nebula

[mirrorgirl1980]

Hi there

 

I took this image with my gt71 and zwo 183 mc pro, its a total of 2.5 hrs, flats darks and bias at 120 seconds and processed in pixinsight and photoshop hope you like it here it is

 

 

[Ouroboros]

I like the colours.  Did you use guiding? The stars look a tad elliptical. 

[mirrorgirl1980]

11 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

I like the colours.  Did you use guiding? The stars look a tad elliptical. 

No i don't do guiding yet maybe i should limit myself to 60 seconds

[Ouroboros]

It’ll help.  The disadvantage being more files to process of course. 

Have you tried some star reduction, blur exterminator or equivalent? 

Anyway, I don’t want to sound overly negative about the stars when it’s such a nice image. 

[mirrorgirl1980]

8 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

It’ll help.  The disadvantage being more files to process of course. 

Have you tried some star reduction, blur exterminator or equivalent? 

Anyway, I don’t want to sound overly negative about the stars when it’s such a nice image. 

yes thank you, i think i know what the problem is i have stacked a bad frame

[mirrorgirl1980]

8 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

It’ll help.  The disadvantage being more files to process of course. 

Have you tried some star reduction, blur exterminator or equivalent? 

Anyway, I don’t want to sound overly negative about the stars when it’s such a nice image. 

And yes i have blur exterminator i use it all the time i guess it never worked very well on this image? 

[symmetal]

Very good image for unguided. 🙂 I assume you don't have a field flattener yet which will give you better corner stars.

Alan

[mirrorgirl1980]

9 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

It’ll help.  The disadvantage being more files to process of course. 

Have you tried some star reduction, blur exterminator or equivalent? 

Anyway, I don’t want to sound overly negative about the stars when it’s such a nice image. 

here it is with blur exterminator i guess i forgot to use it lol

[mirrorgirl1980]

10 minutes ago, symmetal said:

Very good image for unguided. 🙂 I assume you don't have a field flattener yet which will give you better corner stars.

Alan

no i'm going to get one as soon as poss

[Ouroboros]

1 hour ago, mirrorgirl1980 said:

here it is with blur exterminator i guess i forgot to use it lol

That’s helped I think.  It might even have sharpened up the nebula a tad too.  The thing I’ve found with the crescent nebula is the image is overwhelmed by stars.  I should maybe revisit my attempt and this time separate the stars from nebula and process each separately. 

Edited October 14, 2023 by Ouroboros