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Thanks Che - both are better than I've been able to do, but I learned from what you did. Thanks for your help!

My scope just got back from getting collimated so I better figure out my next targets.

Mike

Wow Che - much nicer than what I got - you kept more of the blue and also more of the red parts of the nebula. I played with the image some more this afternoon and couldn't get too much of an improvement. As I played with the image more I think that what I thought was mostly noise was in fact thousa...

Played around a bit more and made some progress. First, found I had Per Channel Background Calibration turned on in DSS, so I restacked. Spent a lot more time with the Wipe module including masking out a few dust motes in my image and increasing the size of the dark anomaly filter. This allowed me t...

I'm new to AP and StarTools and am trying to understand if/how I can clean up the red noise that's across much of my image. My scope is getting collimated so over the last two nights I've been playing with a widefield of Veil Nebula taken with my modded Canon and a zoom lens. I used 60 x 150s lights...