Greetings. Here is this year's effort on this classic pair. Image details on the Astobin site. Thanks for looking.
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
Scott
CEM60, ES 102ED with Motorized MoonLite Focuser, Mallincam VRC-8 Ritchey-Chrétien with CCDT67, Atik 383L+ Mono with EFW2 FW, Baader 36 mm NB and LRGB Filters, RV-6 Dynascope, a very understanding and loving wife, and a Roll Off Roof Observatory
CEM60, ES 102ED with Motorized MoonLite Focuser, Mallincam VRC-8 Ritchey-Chrétien with CCDT67, Atik 383L+ Mono with EFW2 FW, Baader 36 mm NB and LRGB Filters, RV-6 Dynascope, a very understanding and loving wife, and a Roll Off Roof Observatory
Re: The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
How do you keep your brighter stars looking decent? I always have trouble with them as they seem to get over stretched and turn into blobs. "tighten" and "reduce" under Sometimes I remove all the stars and then replace them with less aggressively stretched ones. This just adds another step to processing and if there is a way to avoid it, I'd like to know.
thanks.
Mike
thanks.
Mike
Re: The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
Using the Ha as a luminance layer really helps to keep the stars from bloating. For stars like Altinak, I generally remove them with the heal module and then layer a less stretched version back in.
Scott
CEM60, ES 102ED with Motorized MoonLite Focuser, Mallincam VRC-8 Ritchey-Chrétien with CCDT67, Atik 383L+ Mono with EFW2 FW, Baader 36 mm NB and LRGB Filters, RV-6 Dynascope, a very understanding and loving wife, and a Roll Off Roof Observatory
CEM60, ES 102ED with Motorized MoonLite Focuser, Mallincam VRC-8 Ritchey-Chrétien with CCDT67, Atik 383L+ Mono with EFW2 FW, Baader 36 mm NB and LRGB Filters, RV-6 Dynascope, a very understanding and loving wife, and a Roll Off Roof Observatory
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Re: The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
Nice work! Thanks for posting.
Re: The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
I've used the trick of Ha stars too and that does work pretty well. It just that sometimes I don't have Ha available and luminance channel stars can start too look quite bad. I recently found that masking them out during noise reduction helps some.
Re: The Horsehead and Flame Nebula in HaRGB
loveley image great work