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Old 03-06-2025, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by alpal View Post
Hi Paul,
no - it's just the way you have stretched the image.
I checked it out in PS.
The brightest parts of the nebula are only reading about 50 out of a possible 255 bits.
So you are using only about 1/5th of the dynamic range available in your processing.
It's easy to go Ctrl M and stretch it more to make it brighter.

Good picture anyway.

cheers
Allan
Thanks Allan. I have a few versions on my desktop. The stretched one seemed a bit washed out and noisy so I opted for this. Ideally I should of tripled my exposure time and then stretched it higher. But clouds and guiding issues beat me.
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