Frustrating having all these clear skies and not being able to use them because of Astronomical twilight, LP and a Full Moon, so I thought I would go back and re-process an image I captured at Olly's place in 2013 and see what 5 years of extra processing experience could do.
I re-stacked from scratch - YES I found all the images and calibration files on my back-up drive.
Taken from Les Granges, Provence, France
Luminance 12 x 900secs, Red 4 x 600secs
Green 3 x 600 secs, Blue 6 x 600secs,
Using Olly's equipment, Atik11000, Takahashi FSQ106N and Mount Tak EM200, Baader filters
To be used in an Edition of Stellarium
This is a huge crop of the full frame posted below.
New processing today:
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/k9e3SXhLBi0b_1824x0_wmhqkGbg.jpg)
This is the original image I processed in 2013
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/58d749858741d4f65853c3b63e707481.1824x0_q100_watermark.jpg)
The full image so you can see what a huge crop it is.
This is the new process:
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/5XWVzK2uqGjd_1824x0_wmhqkGbg.jpg)
This is the original process:
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/57c0adb06ea636c3f99eb6e96c9dca76.1824x0_q100_watermark.jpg)