My first Lobster

[PKay]

What a great journey!

The best part was lying on a recliner under a doona,
looking up at the Milky Way with the scopes that God gave us...

Specs:
SHO 6hrs (5min subs) each
RGB 1.5hrs (30s subs) each
Total integration: about 20 hrs.

Tried several new processing techniques:
Blending different ratios of SHO using pixel math.
Using Starnet to generate star masks.
Selective (or judicious) use of deconvolution.

Comments always welcome and thanks for looking :)

https://www.astrobin.com/full/of2b98/0/?nc=user

[multiweb]

Superb data as usual. :thumbsup: Due for a repro IMO. Something's not quite right in the dynamic range of one of the channels. It shows in the core.

[pkinchington]

Hi Peter,
Nice shot. Are your skies dark or do you find RGB with narrowband still works in light polluted skies?
Cheers Kanga:thumbsup:

[PKay]

Hi Marc. Thanx for the tip.
I will have to start again to find out where the saturation is entering the process.
Also my star mask left little dark rings, have to fix that too.
And for the life of me, I couldn't pull out the tiniest bit of blue (in the neb) anywhere...



Hi Kanga & thanx. I live in a remote coastal village with no street lights, or neighbours :)