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Old 06-08-2020, 10:22 AM
neurosis3000 (Reggie)
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Originally Posted by PKay View Post
Not bad at all, well done.

I find this attempt interesting for a few reasons.

1: The Dumbbell nebula is my next target, just waiting for that big bright thing to go away.

2: You have used a duo band filter.

It allows OIII (35 nm Bandwidth) and H-Alpha (15 nm Bandwidth) wavelengths whilst blocking all other wavelengths
thus reducing the effects of light pollution, natural skyglow and moon light.

3: I have taken the liberty of analysing your image to see how well the filter worked.

Firstly I zoomed in on the nebula.

There is still considerable noise to be found,
so that suggests the filter with it's relatively wide bandwidth is still affected by moonlight.

I guess careful processing to remove (subtract) background gradients would help a lot.

Just for fun, removed some noise (after masking the neb), and then pushed the saturation a bit!

And remember I am new to this as well, we are all learning in this forum.

So keep em coming!
Wow! I like it! I must learn how that’s done! Thanks for the tip😃
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