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Lagoon and Helix Nebulae
This is the first time I've posted any images online, feedback would be greatly appreciated. I think my processing is definitely a weak point as I have seen far better images in much worse conditions and less integration time. The colours may be a bit cooked as I played around with saturation quite a bit.
Processing:
Both images were stacked and processed in Pixinsight, using WBPP, SPCC and BlurXterminator. The stars were removed and the sky/nebulosity was stretched and deconvoluted using BlurXterminator. The stars were separately stretched and recombined with the background using PixelMath.
In the case of the Lagoon nebula, I adjusted the vibrance and saturation in Photoshop. At the time of acquisition, I did not have a UV/IR filter so the stars are quite bloated.
Equipment:
ZWO 533MC
Skywatcher 72ED with 0.83x reducer
Saxon HEQ5 Pro
Acquisition:
Bortle 3 Skies
Lagoon Nebula:
20x300s Lights, 50% rejected due to poor seeing, total 50 minutes of integration
20x Darks
Helix:
250x300s Lights, 60% rejected due to poor seeing, total 12.5 hours of integration.
20x Darks
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