Image:
Equipment/software:
- Nikon D90 (Astro-Mod)
- Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
- Sky-Watcher Tripod
- Sigma 300mm F2.8 lens
- Bahintov Mask
- Intervalometer
- Laptop
- All Sky Plate Solver
- Sharpcap
- Stellarium
Acquisition:
- 102 x 2′ Frames – total around .43 hours integration time
- 199 bias frames
- 34 flat frames
- 12 dark frames
Processing:
- Manually stacked in pixinsight
- Crop
- DBE
- Photometric color calibration
- deconvolution
- John Rista Denoise
- EZ soft stretch
- Starnet
- EZ soft stretch
- sharpening with MLT
- curves with range mask to push nebulosity
- curves with color mask to adjust colors
- Local Histogram Equalization
- added stars back
- Adam Blocks star reduction
Annotated Image:
