M8 Lagoon Nebula in HaSho

[EnteringIntoSPACE]

M8 Lagoon Nebula

Nothing like new techniques on old data, and you can probably tell its been cloudy!

Anyway....high level Pixinsight steps, definitely stay tuned for a video!



Linear Fit

Super Luminance

Ez decon

Ez denoise

Color Mask

Lrgb Combination

Multiscale Linear Transform

Local Histogtam Transformation

Drooling and holy cowinging!!!



10hr total integration

Subs were 4 min at unity gain



Gear...

Scope- Skywatcher Quattro 200

Mount-Orion Atlas EQG

Guide Scope-Orion 50mm

Guide Cam- Zwo asi 290mm

Auto Focus, zwo eaf

Image Cam- asi 1600mm pro

Dew Control- Pegasus Astro Power Box

Filter- zwo 7nm ha,sii,oiiii

Software...

Guiding- PHD2

Imaging- NINA

Stacking- Wbpp

Processing- Pixinsight, photoshop

 

[AlanLichty]

This needs to be on a wall in a room for meditation. Staring into this scene is simply hypnotic.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very beautiful

 

[JimFox]

Wow!!! I have never seen it look so good!!! Amazing color and detail.

I look forward to the video as I need to bite the bullet pretty soon and start using Pixinsight.

 

[jarmor]

Looks great!

Is "super luminance" something where you combine all subs to create a synthetic luminance? Does it help with details or what benefits do get with that?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Great result! Love the colors and the dynamic range control - M8 is a bright target! I probably should also go back and reprocess my M8 from 4 years or so ago too - I have learned a lot in PI in the interim too. Want to hear more about super Luminance and the Ez Deconvolution too.

Great stuff!

ML

 

[EnteringIntoSPACE]

Wow!!! I have never seen it look so good!!! Amazing color and detail.

I look forward to the video as I need to bite the bullet pretty soon and start using Pixinsight.

Thanks and Its definitely worth it. Ive got several you tubes on the processing with Pixinsight. Look me up ..entering into space

 

[EnteringIntoSPACE]

Looks great!

Is "super luminance" something where you combine all subs to create a synthetic luminance? Does it help with details or what benefits do get with that?

Correct, its all 3 data sets combined in a weighted average to provide the final crisp details and saturation.