IC 2944 Reprocess

[Startrek]

The cloudy weather continues week after week so thought I’d reprocess some old data captured earlier in the year
IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula ( rigs FOV captures main body only )
Captured at my Obs South Coast NSW during Autumn
8” f5 GSO newt
EQ6-R mount
ZWOASI2600MC set in Ascom to highest dynamic range again 0
Cooled to -10C
Optolong L Extreme filter
180 sec subs
No calibration frames
Stacked in DSS

Reprocessed in Startools v1.7
OSC linear data set
Compose module using narrowband OSC Bi colour preset
AutoDev initial stretch for inspection
Bin 50%
Crop edges
Wipe basic
AutoDev final stretch
Contrast
Sharpening
Deconvolution
Shrink Stars
Colour SHO versions in Matrix
Superstructure
Noise reduction

Base image Synthetic Luminance
Plus created 5 x SHO versions in Matrix ( Colour module )

Comments welcome

Thanks

[croweater]

Nice Martin. I like the 5th image colouring the best. To me highlight the details the most.
Even though I'm not an imager (yet) I'm having fun playing with the Startools demo and Joe Mitsy's data off the internet.(Will be buying Startools one day) Got a start using your tutorials and results are improving pretty quick. I don't have the time to aquire my own data (mainly due to shift work(and no camera) but hoping that will change sometime soon.
Cheers, Richard

[Ryderscope]

Well I guess that if there are to be any positives from all this rainy weather and cloudy skies it is that we get to see lots of re processed data :D

Thanks for sharing these Martin. For what it is worth, my favourite palette is the last one on the right.

Clear skies,
Rodney

[Startrek]

Thanks Richard,
Hopefully you get to start imaging in the near future, I enjoy both visual and imaging , however imaging is my passion
Startools is extremely good software and getting better with each version, very intuitive and powerful tool.
The weather has been awful in the east since the end of September, La Niña they say .....
Thanks again
Martin

[Startrek]

Thanks Rodney
Pretty happy how these Bi colours turned out
Startools is getting easier and easier to use , more functions, options and presets , and the best thing about it, no damn graphs and curves etc.... just sliders
It’s been so long since a good nights imaging , re processing old data helps keep the brain in check
Cheers
Martin