[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

In our recent 17 hour SHO lagoon, the Hourglass was slightly burned out. Last night, waiting for our main target to come up, we did 3 x 10 min subs in each channel, and processed to show maximum detail in the tiny hourglass.

Processing: Median combine, zero point to foothill of histogram, rough colour balance, separate into stars and starless background, working starless make background colour neutral, wavelet sharpen, add back H-alpha stars as white. All in GoodLook 64 .

Here is a tight crop (0.55 sec arc/pixel) around the Hourglass.

Best,
MnT

Looks good to me guys

Cheers

Steve