2012-02-02

Pacman nebula NGC281


Pacman nebula NGC281
Originally uploaded by Mickut
Day 4 in learning to use PixInsight is starting to yield results.
I tested morphological star size reduction, selective de-saturation with a star mask and very moderate luminance and chrominance noise reduction with a lightness mask to smooth out the boosted shadows while leaving the brighter, better SNR nebulous areas and stars intact.