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

  • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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!

    • Linsensuppe@feddit.orgOP
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      3 days ago

      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.