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Messier 11 (Wild Duck Cluster)


Messier 11 (Wild Duck Cluster)

Acquisition:

Bortle 7 skies
Nikon D5600 camera
ISO 200
Astro-Tech AT102ED refractor, 714mm focal length, f/7
HoTech 2" SCA field flattener (1X)
iOptron CEM26 mount
30s x 73 frames (36.5m)

Processing:

Siril 1.2.0-beta2:

Crop to 4500 x 3200px
Photometric color calibration
Generalized hyperbolic stretch (twice)

RawTherapee 5.8:

Tone curve
L*a*b* CL curve (to reduce background chroma noise)
Luminance noise reduction

GIMP 2.10:

Luminance curve
Saturation






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