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North America and Pelican nebula
Taken with an Askar 80PHQ, 0.76x reducer, asi2600MC with L-enhance filter for close to 28 hours in Bortle 7 skies.
Everything done in Pixinsight. My main steps are WBPP, SPCC, BlurX, Graxpert, Statistical stretch, Starnet++, histogram- and curves transformation.
At the end I use Pixelmath to set the median value to 20 to get the background across my images relatively consistent. It's a bit lighter than most photos but I send them out to be printed later and this way the prints don't turn out too dark.
As an aside, I made a stack when I had around 10 hours of data and the difference is pretty small!
u/Phiilicious — 7 hours ago