Astrophotography Processing Challenge January 2025

[AstroBee]

CALL FOR DATA!
We are in need of processing challenge data. Please consider submitting data for this fun challenge.
If you have data that you are interested in sharing, please reach out to me via PM so we can discuss it.

This month's data comes from David @Jockinireland and is another great summer region in Cygnus with the Clamshell, North American and Pelican Nebulae. Its nearly 7 hours with A Samyang 135mm, ASI2600mc and the L-ultimate. It can be processed as HOO, pseudo SHO or just as a regular RGB image. There is a FITS and TIFF file in the shared link below (Both are the same so only one download is required.) as well as two JPEG's with two different processing techniques from David. If you want to go into the edit blind, don't peek at the JPEG's!
Please do not try to unzip the files on the Google Drive. Download the zip file you want to use and unzip it on your local drive.
As always, have fun! It's a challenge, not a contest, so everyone is a winner!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[Graeme1858]

Well I'll kick this one off on this wet and windy Kentish day. Great data David, cheers. Didn't need to do much to it.

ABE
Masked stretch
Curves - Spent quite a bit of time tweaking colours and saturation.
UnSharp Mask.

And that's it! I was going to do a Starnet stars separation and reduce them, but they are already small so I left them as they are.

Higher Res: https://www.averywayobservatory.co.uk/a ... 121zgpsb5v

[AstroBee]

Nice job @Graeme1858.

[Jockinireland]

I really like that @Graeme1858 . It is less "in your face" than my efforts and that works very well.