The Elephant Trunk Nebula - Bicolor Narrowband Processing in PixInsight

In our last capture video we took pictures of the Elephant Trunk Nebula - I was satisfied enough with the results that I decided to make this processing video, which in 30 minutes races from pre-processing, stacking, and post-processing! I hope you will enjoy!

00:00 Intro
00:55 WeightedBatchPreProcessing for Calibration
03:25 SubFrame Selector
11:06 Registration (Star Alignment)
12:05 Local Normalization
13:43 Image Integration
16:01 Post-processing: cropping & rotation
17:04 EZ Deconvolution
19:50 EZ Denoise
21:15 EZ Soft Stretch
22:00 Color combination
23:40 Curves Transformation
24:19 Color Saturation on Starless image
27:12 EZ Star Reduction
27:52 DarkStructureEnhance
28:35 Conclusion

Here is the link to the EZ Processing Suite: https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?threads/ez-processing-suite.14937/

Stacked Masters for the Elephant Trunk Nebula: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lX1DFz9AtIZ3lYmcErOQSDwvgSCuersX/view?usp=sharing

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