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Old 05-10-2011, 10:18 PM
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First Processing with PixInsight - NGC2070 Ha

Finally nailed my backside to a chair for long enough to go through some PixInsight tutorials and videos (having a day off helped) so I can now present my first offering for your appraisal. It's definitely complicated, but seems very powerful.

The image was taken through my Tak at F6. I took 60 & 900 second exposures through a 5nm Ha filter. I calibrated and stacked in Maxim as usual. These were registered and HDR combined in PixInsight. I then applied a histogram transformation and HDRWavelets. (I can see H rolling his eyes at all of this HDR stuff already!) Next was ACDNR and a further histogram stretch, followed by an Unsharp Masking.

The full size image is found here.

It certainly isn't my best data - it was captured in poor seeing with lots of moisture and a bit of wind about. I wasn't 100% happy with guiding or focus either. (More excuses than a tomcat going to the vet!)

Hopefully I'll get a LRGB image up in the near future and then a HaLRGB combo.

Thanks for looking,

DT
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