Horsehead and flame nebula reprocessed

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Is there actually a blue haze present on the LHS of this image. Or is it light pollution from moonlight or reflection on dust of starlight? I used Ha,G and B subs.
Cheers Kanga

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Light pollution gradient,
Gradient exterminator in phoshop or DBE in pixinsight fixes this

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Hi Nik,
Is gradient exterminator a plugin for photoshop?
Cheers Kanga

[Nikolas (Nik)]

yes it is mate it isnt too expensive
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/GradientXTerminator/

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Hi Nik,
I have applied this plugin to my image and I see its potential.
Cheers Kanga

[Nikolas (Nik)]

takes a bit of playing around but it has great potential

[TrevorW]

i use Astroflat pro plenty potential in that image

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

i use Astroflat pro plenty potential in that image

Hi Trevor,
Wow! Amazing! How much is that software and how did you apply it?
Cheers Kanga

[Startrek (Martin)]

Kanga,
Gradient !
Startools ( Bin , Wipe , Contrast , Superstructure Isolate and Dim Small , De Noise and so on …..)
Loads of modules to mitigate gradient , balance background and remove noise

M.