Finally Happy with this Ghost Nebula

[lone moon]

After reprocess and reprocess I have gotten this to a place where I think it looks really cool! 8 hours of the ghost nebula. Equipment
Telescope: custom built f/4, 8inch aperture newtonian.
Imaging train: skywatcher quattro coma corrector for f/4 scopes, optolong L-pro broadband light pollution filter, and my ZWO ASI 533MC.
Mount: ZWO AM5
Guiding system: ZWO 120MM guide scope and camera, monochrome.
ASI Air mini
Processed entirely in pixinsight
Bortle 4.5

I did an annotation but there was nothing extremely note worthy to mention. Loads of baby stars, a couple radio sources, many many eclipsing stars. The most interesting thing I noticed was the white dwarfs on the left side of the image. Theres one confirmed white dwarf but theres 3 potential white dwarfs which I resolved quite nicely. Visible bluish white colour on all of them.

[tiny void]

I'm sorry, not to be rude. But is this insane detail or insane noise reduction?

[woven dawn]

that looks impressive!

[lone moon]

I dont know how to answer your question. Yes there's detail, removing the noise highlights detail. Both of those are true.

[lone moon]

Thank you! It was so challenging to get this to look smooth.

[woven dawn]

did you post it on Astrobin, surely getting the

[tiny void]

Ahh okay!

I couldn't tell if it was intentionally smooth or not

[lone moon]

Yeah, I use deepsnr which removes all of the noise, I have to add it back in because to much noise removal looks like plastic

[tiny void]

I really kinda like the smooth look tho

It kinda looks like an oil painting in a really nice way

[lone moon]

Thanks

[tiny void]

I also really love this fella

He looks like the villain dissolving at the end of a Disney movie

[lone moon]

True, its crazy that these are natural formations.

[frozen gull]

Custom built! That’s impressive!

Glorious image

[woven dawn]

[narrow otter]

Nooo, he's actually flipping pizza dough! look above!

[narrow otter]

Nice work Sir! ... I have love / hate relationship with this target... that was after a 113 hr mosaic with the Iris lmao

[lone moon]

Its so hard to get it to look good. I think I need way more integration.

[narrow otter]

Not the full fat hi-res file, but over 2 months of my life lmao... still not sure it was actually worth it 🤣

[flat oyster]

So jelly of your stars, I'm really strugging getting good stars with my custom newt

[unique ridge]

How can I achieve this? This is absolutely beautiful

[lone moon]

That extra integration makes that look incredible. Its decided... I must get more integration. Next up 16H

[narrow otter]

Was taken with Sharpstar z4 (550mm), ASI533MM + ZWO LRGB filters. It's a 2 panel mosaic. 113 hrs over 25 nights (June through to August), mainly backyard, 3 were at darker sky site for extra rgb and stars

[lone moon]

Insane integration

[narrow otter]

I am telling you that you do not need to crunch this further my good man... you have cool ghost people and you have a decent "pizza flip"... you are zoomed in a bit, and you have a really good quality picture here. It's new target time... ie. you can always come back...

[narrow otter]

Preserve your sanity and have fun with something different... even if it's a galaxy... mega yawn!!!!

[lone moon]

hahaha thank you

[lone moon]

ghost PTSD

[narrow otter]

Don't get me wrong... it is a cool target... but that is the point in itself.. it is just a target. If i had just focused on the Iris, I would have needed 25% of the time... but it's lost on the dimwit guys out there that would comment on colour, sharpness, "artifacts" ... like we don't know there is always something...

You nailed a great pic with 8 hours dude... adding to it (data trumps everything) is never a problem... but it is a total PITA!