UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hello,
I've been working on this object for a couple of nights to reach a total integration time of 18.5 hours. Two-panel SHO data were processed and combined in APP. Noise reduction and color enhancement were applied in PI and Lr. My gears are: QHY163m, Takahashi TSA120, Astro-physics Mach1, Antlia 3.5nm NB filters. Here is the link for acquisition information and higher image resolution https://astrob.in/fbg3mq/B/.
Clear skies,
Kijja
That looks very nice, difficult to get the background corrected I can image with all the nebulosity. 🙂 Did you add some sort of smoothing to the nebula?
@vincent-mod
You hit to the points again! Thank you for the issues of correct background and de-noise. To be honest, I am not sure for what should be the correct background of this nebula. I just use Ha for Luminance, everything outside Ha was considered as background. I also applied de-noise from Nik software to the final touch. This is probably too much. What is your ideas for improving this image?
Kijja
Oh, it was not a criticism, I meant to say that I find the result good with so many nebulosity. That's always difficult to get nice. 🙂
So I think that looks fine, I would maybe not use the denoise option as I think it removes detail in the nebula.
@vincent-mod
Don't worry, I always want to listen to your constructive comments. I agree with your comment on too much denoise. More lights were acquired to improve SNR so that the need for noise reduction was lessen. Here is the link to my new image https://astrob.in/fbg3mq/C/
