NGC 2070 from Country Victoria, During Feb new moon.
20x5 min RGB with SBIG 8300c - pushed and stretched to bu... well lots anyway! Really just seeing how far one can push OSC RGB files in post production with PS and NIK filters.
I've stretched a BW luminance blend layer in PS to bring out the nebulosity, and colour blend mode layers on top, heavily filtered with tonal and colour contrast layers, noise reduction, sharpening and a separate star layer on top of the stack. (I suspect the 200K Jpeg will suffer in translation, but hopefully it still looks ok).
Was also trying a bit of star masking to hold the big stars from bloating during stretching. Still working on these techniques, hopefully they should come in handy when I eventually move on to a mono setup.
Pretty good night's seeing, might be worthwhile getting a bit more data for smoother results, but overall I'm happy with it.
Anyway, thanks for looking, feedback welcome.
Cheers
Andy