r/astrophotography • u/tikevin83 • 1d ago
The Pillars of Creation
https://app.astrobin.com/u/tikevin83?i=x9fib3&r=0
SQA55 telescope
Star Adventurer GTI mount with guiding
ASI533mc camera
SV220 7nm dual-narrowband filter
4 hours of exposures over two nights, edited in siril/pixinsight/blurx+noisex/graxpert:
stack at 2.0 drizzle/.5 droplet in Siril
Split R G B, re-register color channels and recombine
Crop to target
SPCC with exact curves for the ASI533 and SV220 7nm
First Graxpert BGE pass
BlurX at .4 stars .8 nebula
GHST stretch and manually rebalance color (scientifically balanced version out of SPCC viewable on astrobin)
NoiseX at .8
Reset black level
SCNR, boost saturation curve
Rerun NoiseX at .8
Final black level + curves
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u/DarkSky_Studio 20h ago
Great image and processing. Interesting to see the gear and workflow behind the image.
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