Help to process the dust lanes

Processing Deep Sky Help Needed
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Nikola Milicev avatar
Nikola Milicev avatar
I need help to process my Cassiopeia image to pull out the dust lanes around it
I can use PI and if needed PS (but my ps knowledge is 0)
I have around 30 lights, 0 calibration frames
What settings to use to pull out the lanes?
The link to 1 raw image https://imgur.com/gallery/EHXYZpr
Deep Sky West (Lloyd) avatar
Deep Sky West (Lloyd) avatar
Can you provide a link to the entire calibrated stack?  Hard to tell from one subframe what's happening.  You can try to use Enhance Dark Structures script in PI.  I use this function in combination with PS by blending the "standard" image with the enhanced one until I get the desired effect.

Clear skies,
-Lloyd
Well written Concise
Wes Schwarz avatar
Wes Schwarz avatar
You need flat frames to eliminate vignetting and illumination issues. Then you can use an S curve to enhance over all contrast. This process will enhance the dust lanes.
Michael Timm avatar
Michael Timm avatar
There are fantastic tutorials provided by Kayron Mercieca. I suggest to use this one:
Andromeda processing Tutorial
Geoff avatar
Geoff avatar
Try the dark structure enhance script in PixInsight.
Edit: I see someone has already suggested this.
Well written
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