Running Chicken Nebula
4 hours 15 minutes
180, 300 and one 600 second acquisition, all unguided. NEQ6
ZWO ASI 294mc pro
ZWO asiair
optolong L-Enhance
DSS
Photoshop
Skywatcher ED 72 Orion 0.8 reducer
The background is milky. That's easy to fix. Just look at the histogram, and for each channel (R, G, B) set the black point to the foothill of the histogram (the foothill is the place where the histogram first kicks up from zero). If you do that, no meaningful photon is lost, but the image looks crisper and more contrasty.
I think it may be jpg artefacts or compression artefacts, also there was a lot of moisture in the atmosphere Monday evening in Melbourne, but I'll have another look and see thanks
The background is milky. That's easy to fix. Just look at the histogram, and for each channel (R, G, B) set the black point to the foothill of the histogram (the foothill is the place where the histogram first kicks up from zero). If you do that, no meaningful photon is lost, but the image looks crisper and more contrasty.
Best,
MnT
I've sorted the milkiness with the first image and also submitted an image with the stars "muted" not sure yet but it does show more nebula
