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Originally Posted by SpaceNoob
I avoided the deconvolution routines mostly because I can't really seem to get a handle on them and they were trashing it, or the beer I was drinking during processing was impacting my abilities. I did a slight unsharp mask at relatively large scale as this tends not to introduce significant artifacts. I applied a mask over the brighter stars to avoid enhancing any halos/smearing generated by oversampling and A/O. To further help I have rejected any subs that were registering above say 2.3 arc seconds, although I have probably 12 of each channel, the end result was only 6 each within this criteria. The range is 1.45 - 2.25 arc seconds, mostly the Ha were rejected as there was high level cloud present.
You can probably push the data still because I haven't significantly constrained the black point, the data was fairly noise free so I could leave the histogram slightly relaxed at the frontal edge to reveal some of the fainter structures.
May or may not be interesting, but the Oiii subs clearly reveal a very obvious peanut shape (though saturated) where I imagine the Homunculus nebula resides.
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What makes this picture truly exceptional is the amount of fine details. The fact that you didn't alter the fine features during processing shows that good data doesn't need to be enhanced. There is a big difference processing close up shots with a high sampling and wide field images with less features. I reckon you've nailed this one just right.