M42/M43 Orion nebula

I did an other processing of this image to get some more detail out.

 

Camera: Nikon D3x

Filter: UHC-s Baader 2" nebula filter

Optics: Celestron 9,25" EdgeHD

Guiding: LVI SmartGuider 2

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro

 

DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 settings:

 

Stacking mode: Mosaic

Alignment method: Bicubic

18 frames (ISO: 1600) - total exposure: 1 hr 24 mn 18 s

 

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Offset: 108 frames exposure: 1/8000 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Dark: 18 frames exposure: 4 mn 41 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Flat: 32 frames exposure: 5 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Processing in PixInsight 1.7

 

Twelve times:

ChannelExtraction

ATrousWaveletTransform

HistogramTransformation

DarkStructureEnhance

 

And finally a little stretch to get the details and color out: HistogramTransformation

ColorSaturation

Done