IC443-The Jellyfish Nebula

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Comment by Trevor Woodrow on March 3, 2012 at 7:54pm

Very cool, I appreciate the the step by step! Now could you lend me some skill too, lol! Again, well done!

Comment by Bernard Miller on March 3, 2012 at 2:36pm

Trevor,

This was a straight LRGB image using Astrodon Gen2 filters. I register and stack in CCDStack and create 3 Lum images. The regulae Lum and two deconvolution Lums; one with 30 iterations and one with 150 iterations. I blend the 30 and 150 iteration Lums in photoshop using layer masks to selectively sharpen protions of the image. Then I use high pass filter and FocusMagic to highlight selective areas using layer masks. Once I get the lum the way I like it I combine it with the RGB. I will use soft light and Lab enahncement on the color and Noise Ninja at the end using a layer mask of the inverted image.

Comment by Jordi Artigas on March 3, 2012 at 10:09am

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on March 3, 2012 at 10:01am

Can you give any insight about your processing as well? Again, well done Bernard!

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on March 3, 2012 at 10:01am

Incredible! Do you use any type of LPR filter for your lum exposures?

Comment by Bernard Miller on March 2, 2012 at 7:00am

Thanks Charles. I wasn't thrilled about the framing, but I was trying to avoid eta Gem. I had some good seeing and got some really good detail.

Comment by Conor on March 2, 2012 at 2:16am

Not sure how I missed this one. Most excellent work, Bernard. Absolutely incredible detail here of one of my favourite objects in the sky. Five stars from me.