Crescent Nebula Reprocessed

[Bob Israel]

Here is another attempt at processing this nebula. Jim's and my hunch was correct in that my pixel mosaic mapping in the original post was wrong. For some reason, setting to auto doesn't work for my scope so I originally set to RGGB. That gave me the blue version. However, stacking with a mosaic patter of BGGR gives proper color to the image. Well, at least I figured it out! Such is the journey with Pixinsight but my basic process workflow is getting better each time. Comments always appreciated.

Crescent Nebula
Celestron Origin 6" RASA
50 minutes total integration (200 x 15s)
PixInsight (BXT, NXT, SXT)
SETI Astro ADBE (Auto dynamic background extraction) - this works really well!
LRC and Phtoshop

 

[Mike Lewis]

Great job - yes the whole deBayer operation can be mysterious, with truly strange results if you do not have the pattern correct. This 2nd version looks quite nice though, so seems like you have things sorted.

ML

 

[Bob Israel]

Great job - yes the whole deBayer operation can be mysterious, with truly strange results if you do not have the pattern correct. This 2nd version looks quite nice though, so seems like you have things sorted.

ML

Thanks Mike. Much appreciated. Still so much to learn . . . baby steps.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Bob, I am just back getting reception, I am so glad you figured it out! This looks super nice now.