A difficult subject, made harder by my 30s-per-frame limit. Barely a hint of any of the extensive peripheral dust clouds except for the fact that there are fewer stars in those regions.
Acquisition:
Bortle 7 skies
Nikon D7000 camera
Orion Apex 102mm telescope, 1300mm focal length
Orion AstroView EQ3 with single-axis drive
30s x 240 frames
f/12.7
ISO 800
Processing:
Siril:
Background color correction
Photometric color calibration
Asinh histogram transformation
Manual histogram adjustment
RawTherapee:
Chroma and luminance denoising
Color curves/black point/saturation to taste
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