NGC4945 - AKA the Cigar Galaxy
Shot over the course of 3 nights last week - started with about 5.5hrs of data but culled down to 131x 120sec subs mainly due to bad focus shift on one night
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C14 @f7
Eq8
Asi2600mc pro bin1
Asi290mm with celestron OAG
131 x 120sec subs
ASIAIR Pro
AAP + DeNoise
This is my first go trying to process-out some of the background noise generated by my beautiful bright suburban Sydney skies. I'm trialing Topaz Denoise as its a fairly cheap and easy to use alternative and I really don't have the time to learn a whole new processing methodology just yet.
I've gone very light with the software (no sharpening and masked the body of the galaxy for reduced impact). After blinking between the 2 images till my eyes hurt, i have to say I thinks its a good improvement and can't seem to see any damage done to original data, but I'd love to get some feedback on what you think.
Links to bigger versions:
DeNoise
No DeNoise
Thanks for looking!