Orion + Barnard's Loop (Reprocess of 08/01/19 Data)
Today I have revisited some data that I shot on 8th January 2019 in preparation for an upcoming talk.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Modded Canon 1100D with 50 fixed lens and Skytech Light Pollution Clip Filter on a Star Adventurer Mini mount tracking at sidereal rate.
ISO-1600 for 60 seconds at f/1.8
67 lights and 30 darks stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, then processed in Photoshop CS2, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
In today's reprocess I started by using the star reduction action in the RC Astro Tools Photoshop plugin, then I tweaked the levels and curves a bit more. I followed this up with several iterations of denoising using Fast Stone Image Viewer.
If you zoom in you can see a tiny horsehead nebula and tiny flame nebula, as well as the bright region around Orion's Sword where M42 the Orion Nebula and Running Man nebula reside. I do need to start over and do a processing run that doesn't over-expose the M42 region and blend that back in, but I don't have time to do that today!
Orion + Barnard's Loop (Reprocess of 08/01/19 Data)
Today I have revisited some data that I shot on 8th January 2019 in preparation for an upcoming talk.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Modded Canon 1100D with 50 fixed lens and Skytech Light Pollution Clip Filter on a Star Adventurer Mini mount tracking at sidereal rate.
ISO-1600 for 60 seconds at f/1.8
67 lights and 30 darks stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, then processed in Photoshop CS2, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
In today's reprocess I started by using the star reduction action in the RC Astro Tools Photoshop plugin, then I tweaked the levels and curves a bit more. I followed this up with several iterations of denoising using Fast Stone Image Viewer.
If you zoom in you can see a tiny horsehead nebula and tiny flame nebula, as well as the bright region around Orion's Sword where M42 the Orion Nebula and Running Man nebula reside. I do need to start over and do a processing run that doesn't over-expose the M42 region and blend that back in, but I don't have time to do that today!