Running Chook first effort

[Nikolas]

Last night before the fog rolled in

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 amount of stars is mindboggling

[strongmanmike]

Good one Nik, you have squeezed in the whole chicken nicely :thumbsup:

Mike

[Placidus]

Just the thing! Well done.


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

[Nikolas]

Hi Mike


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

[Nikolas]

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

[multiweb]

Very nice field and details. Well done. :thumbsup:
I'm trying to do some Oiii on that one tonight and the next few nights.

[Nikolas]

Looking forward to the results