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Oct 07, 2022 21:47 |  #1

A young open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus surrounded by emission nebulosity which known as NGC 7380 or Wizard Nebula.
Taken with Orion 8" RC telescope, ASI2600MM camera, Chroma 5nm narrow-band SII, Ha, OIII filters.
Acquired with NINA sequencer, processed with AstroPixel Processor and Photoshop.

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Oct 08, 2022 01:52 |  #2

Beautiful image. How many subs? Maybe a little overcooked with the saturation, though.


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Oct 08, 2022 03:10 |  #3

DavidWatts wrote in post #19433499 (external link)
Beautiful image. How many subs? Maybe a little overcooked with the saturation, though.

Thank you David. The image actually overstretched. Two nights I was collecting data, but on second night halve of it was corrupted during computer OS automatic update (windows 11) . So, what I could use is 16X8min subs of each filter and it is 6 hours 24min only. Now, computer lost permission for auto updates but weather is not cooperating to get more shots.




  
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Oct 11, 2022 15:51 |  #4

Very nice. Maybe a bit too saturated as mentioned and could use more time on target to clean up a bit of noise, but beautiful image as is.
I'd love to run your final image through Noise Xterminator in PixInsight to see what it would do to clean it up a bit.


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Oct 12, 2022 15:26 |  #5

SiriusDoggy wrote in post #19434815 (external link)
Very nice. Maybe a bit too saturated as mentioned and could use more time on target to clean up a bit of noise, but beautiful image as is.
I'd love to run your final image through Noise Xterminator in PixInsight to see what it would do to clean it up a bit.

Thank you SiriusDoggy. Here is link to starless version of the picture: https://www.flickr.com …slagrim/shares/​83478jr7n7 (external link). I do have Stars picture to blend into final, but could be interesting to see what Noise XTerminator can do to starless. I cleaned SII, Ha, OII in Topaz Denoise AI before combining in RGB and it did pritty good job, but after stretching picture more to get some background details it become obvious that it is not enough exposure time.
If you cannot to open/upload the picture - let me know, I will change security from private to public.




  
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Oct 12, 2022 22:30 as a reply to  @ Slagrim's post |  #6

I was able to download it but as I suspected, downloading a jpg, doing the work to it, and resaving it as a jpg is not the best route to take. It didn't do much of anything.


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Oct 13, 2022 10:49 |  #7

SiriusDoggy wrote in post #19435289 (external link)
I was able to download it but as I suspected, downloading a jpg, doing the work to it, and resaving it as a jpg is not the best route to take. It didn't do much of anything.

Actually the file is in full size .tiff format and thanks for trying. I don't think you should be wasting your time on this. It is what it is. As soon as I have time and the weather allows, I will collect more data on the object.




  
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