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[Astronomy4You]

I decided to shoot with my big scope (Celestron 9.25 on my Losmandy G-11) and Pentax K-1 last night. My first time imaging this in 3 years.

 

40x300s 

ISO 800

 

Guided by the Lacerta MGEN 3 connected to the Celestron finder scope as a guide scope (I had to remove the eyepeice section and hook the camera into the diagonal and thus focus was hard to achive for the guider) 

 

It was pretty windy in the early part of the night and I had to toss about 10 of my original frames. 

 

Processed in Pixinsight 

 

* Image Solver

 

* SPCC

 

* SPFC

 

* MGC

 

* Background neutralization

 

* BXT (Correct only)

 

* NXT

 

* BXT

 

* Statistical Stretch

 

* Curves

 

* Color Saturation

 

Finished in Photoshop

 

[BQ Octantis]

Well captured.

 

There's a lot of color noise around M51b…have you tried any color noise reduction techniques?

 

BQ

[archiebald]

To the OP, why are you spamming this all across the forum?

[BQ Octantis]

To the OP, why are you spamming this all across the forum?

I know, right!—I didn't know which forum to reply to! I settled on the DSLR forum since he's using a stock one of those…

[Astronomy4You]

I wasn't sure which forum to post it in. Not trying to spam. 

[Astronomy4You]

Well captured.

 

There's a lot of color noise around M51b…have you tried any color noise reduction techniques?

 

BQ

 

I used NoiseXterminator in PixInsight but no other NR.