Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Another shot at processing the Great Nebula
The issue is that I am working with a stack of only 3 images for a total of around 150 seconds of exposure--a very small amount of data. I did some more reprocessing of the image I posted earlier, reducing noise and manipulating levels. This is the new result. I think the center of the nebula is improved tremendously. The rather grainy nature of the outer area is caused by insufficient data due to the relatively short exposure time,
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