narrow oxide
A reprocess using the MAS stretch tool in Pixinsight.
I played around with MAS on this data not too long ago and found that it didn't pull the noise out at all. I wanted to give it a shot by bringing everything I had to the table because less noise means less denoise which results in a sharper image.
While I think my original process is better in sharpness, I think it has quite a few mottled areas that this version is lacking, which is a good thing. Plus MAS brings out the color quite a bit better while also keeping that noise at bay, which let me push the saturation a little farther. I would go more but it starts looking cartoonish if it's pushed much farther than this. I think this is a very visually appealing process, either way.
The raw data itself is unreasonably sharp. Because reducers on RC telescopes have adverse affects, such as bloating star spot sizes across the board, a FWHM seeing estimate of the data isn't very accurate. However it can give a near ballpark number, though at the very upper threshold of what it likely was. The FWHM being around 2.1/2.2" for the raw data.
A crude gear breakdown is as follows:
Stock TPO RC8
Starizona Apex-L 0.65x reducer/flattener
Touptek ATR2600M
And some bad svbony SHO filters.
vagrant viper
clever charm
sonic rock