NGC 6939 and NGC 6946 (Fireworks Galaxy)
- Owner: EPinNC (View all images and albums)
- Uploaded: Jul 29 2024 12:39 PM
- Taken: 2024:08:29 19:17:32
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- Album: Tracked Telescope and Camera/Lens Images
Acquisition:
Bortle 7 skies
Nikon D5600 camera (unmodified)
ISO 200
Astro-Tech AT102ED refractor, 714mm focal length, f/7
HoTech 2" SCA field flattener (1X)
iOptron CEM26 mount
30s x 498 frames (4h 9m)
Processing:
Siril 1.2.3:
Crop to 5000x3600px
BQ Octantis' technique of white balance, background subtraction, and histogram conditioning
StarNet:
- star desaturation
- separation into stars and background
- background: modified arcsinh and generalized hyperbolic stretches, background extraction, GraXpert denoise, GIMP levels (to darken the background a bit)
- stars: synthetic blue (B=2*G-R), modified arcsinh stretch, saturation
Single star RGB alignment on combined image
RawTherapee 5.9:
L*a*b chrominance/luminance adjustment (to reduce chrominance noise)
GIMP 2.10:
Luminance curve (just a touch)
Saturation