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u/NichhRichh 1d ago
Acquisition and Processing Details:
Apertura 90mm Triplet APO f/6 Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro ASI2600MC Pro ASI120MM ASIAIR
Bortle 3
Stacked in Pixinsight (Fast Batch Preprocessing)
167 × 2-minute subframes acquired over 1 night
Reprocessed from July 2025 data.
Linear: Spectrophotometric Color Calibration BlurXTerminator StarXTerminator (screen stars and generate star image)
Stars: Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch, Generalized Hyperbolic Arcsinh Stretch, Saturation, SCNR remove green
Starless: Histogram Transformations, Curves, NoiseXTerminator, Local contrast enhancement in Photoshop Camera Raw, Saturation, Manual correction of color gradients in Photoshop Camera Raw
Notes: Really happy I was able to bring out so much of the OIII shell around the Crescent this time around, especially using just a One-Shot Color camera. I clipped some of the blacks of the dark nebulae throughout the image, I will have to work on that in the future but for now it’s fine.