I went for the Boogeyman Nebula. There are so many great images of this object out there so I had to try. Suspiciously many of them are from really dark sites or remote observatories. So four nights would certainly have been better than two...but I wanted to try not to complain, right?
I gave this several runs of processing, mainly to get the stretch right. Surprisingly I had more problems with the Ha background than with the dust (okay, you could say the dust is overstretched a bit). I had to throttle down gamma and strength in NBAccent quite a bit. Otherwise it would have been even more mottled. In contrast to most of my other pics I omitted 'Equalize noise grain' during denoising. Usually I like this a bit more since it avoids the mottling but noise was pretty dominant here so I went for full denoise (15 pixels
).Anyway, for the limited integration time of about 11 hrs I am fine with it:
See https://www.astrobin.com/1iwsky/0/ for details.
Clear skies!
Stefan