The Scorpion's Crown-a four panel mosaic in Ha RGB

This is a four panel mosiac of the Region surrounding the bright star Dschubba.

 

One and a half hours per panel in rgb (club dark site) and one hour per panel in H alpha (Bortle 6)

 

10 hours of integration in total.

 

Stacked individual panels -RGB and Ha -separately in AstroPixel Processor; 4 panel RGB and Ha mosaics created -LNC first degree, MBB 20% in APP

 

Stacked mosaics processed in Pixinsight

 

Dynamic crop

ADBE

BlurX (correct only)

Image solve

SPCC (RGB only)

BlurX

Starnet++

NoiseX

 

Nebula

 

Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch

Curves

 

SetiAstro star stretch

 

PixelMath to add stars back to starless image

 

 

Mosaics registered in Pixinsight

 

Stars removed from registered Ha mosaic with Starnet++. This still left a few very bright stars.

 

Converted to tiff and remaining stars removed using content aware fill in Photoshop CS6

(this did a better job than clone stamp in PixInsight)

 

Saved in PI as XISF File.

 

Combined RGB and Ha using the excellent Combine Ha and RGB process in PixInsight

 

Equipment

 

Samyang 135mm/ZWOASI 533 Mc and MM/Optolong UV/IR Filter/Antlia 3nm H alpha filter/ASIAIR/AM3

 

Software

ASIAIR App

AstroPixelProcessor

PixInsight with RC plugins (NoiseX, Blur X) and Starnet++

Photoshop CS6

Done