Equipment
- Samyang 135mm f/2
- Canon EOS 750D
- Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Acquisition
- Location : Backyard, bortle 5
- Integration time : 652 x 60s (10h52)
- Calibration : bias, flats
Processing (PixInsight)
Linear
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Crop
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DBE
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BackgroundNeutralization and ColorCalibration
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Noise reduction (TGV and MMT)
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HSV Repair
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Extract synthetic luminance
Luminance
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MaskedStretch
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Starnet++
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Curves
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MLT (sharpening)
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HDRMultiscaleTransform
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LocalHistogramEqualization
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PixelMath – adding the stars back
RGB
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MaskedStretch (note : I usually do ArcsinhStretch but this time I had too much chrominance noise)
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SCNR Green 70%
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Invert > SCNR Green 100% > Invert (fixing magenta stars)
Final adjustments
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LRGBCombination
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MorphologicalTransformation (contours mask made using Starnet, Binarize, Convolution and PixelMath)
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ColorSaturation
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Curves
Taken in October 2019