My second (and first successful) try of the orion nebula. Any advice for editing out the noise and these stripes? What are these?
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85 Lens: H-FSA100300 (100-300mm f4-5.6) Settings: f6.4, ISO 6400, 5"
1020 pics at 5s each + calibration frames
Total exposure: 85 minutes / 1.4 hours
The colors look amazing, well done!
I’ve had the same issue with those red streaks. I’ve seen a massive reduction to them by using a lens heating strip to eliminate dew sitting on the lens.
Also make sure your white balance isn’t set to auto.
You can somewhat get rid of them in photoshop:
Select by brightness, select something very bright to get all the nebula and stars selected, then select inverse to select only dark sky, feather a few pixels and then go to color adjustment and darken the red channel a bit until the streaks aren’t visible or generally better.
Hope it helps!
I did use a heating strip, but set white balance to auto… What should I set it to?
I’ll try the photoshop tips. Thanks.
Set it to whatever value feels more neutral to you, just keep it locked in.