All,

Never really got around to liking the image of this that I had taken last year so the past 2 months I've been reprocessing it and trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. I don't have a lot of experience with processing widefield data and it requires some different techniques that I am not sure that I posses. Anyway, taken from a very dark location, Tak FSQ106N + STL11K+AP900 and ACP.

4x900s LRGB

http://www.celestial-images.com/Imag...0s-LRGB-1.html

Processed in CCDStack, Assembled in PhotoshopCS and it took an a lot of work to remove the last traces of Rigel - who was attempting to arc-weld the shutter of the camera and burn a hole through the chip. So a lot of gradient removal that was caused by Orion Blow Torch was required. Some sharpening, and this surprised me.... a minimum filter to suppress some of the stars. There were a bunch of them.

Any suggestions to improve this gratefully accepted

Regards

Bill