Messier 20 - Trifid Nebula (starless)
In order to trial the famous Blur/Noise/Star-Xterminator plugins for PixInsight, I decided to look at images I captured in July 2020 while testing my newly-acquired Nikon 600mm F4 lens.
Needless to say that these 3 scripts take your images to the next level especially when this is only 6 subs (3x 3' + 3x 2') at 1020mm F6.7 and autoguiding was struggling to control my NEQ6 mount!
Here is the cropped starless version, then tweaked using the usual PixInsight tools + BlurX and NoiseX.
I don't usually like starless images where I find stars do add to the richness of the field of view, but for once I could not resist ... O:)
Messier 20 - Trifid Nebula (starless)
In order to trial the famous Blur/Noise/Star-Xterminator plugins for PixInsight, I decided to look at images I captured in July 2020 while testing my newly-acquired Nikon 600mm F4 lens.
Needless to say that these 3 scripts take your images to the next level especially when this is only 6 subs (3x 3' + 3x 2') at 1020mm F6.7 and autoguiding was struggling to control my NEQ6 mount!
Here is the cropped starless version, then tweaked using the usual PixInsight tools + BlurX and NoiseX.
I don't usually like starless images where I find stars do add to the richness of the field of view, but for once I could not resist ... O:)