I finally used the resources that PixInsight provides, in particular a great new video on LRGB processing, and I made a big leap in producing good color images. It started with the first data I’ve collected in 2011, NGC 7640.

This is a faint galaxy in Andromeda. It is a total of 2 hours, 10 minutes of data. I was very happy with how the color turned out. So I went back and used the techniques from the video (along with my additions) to reprocess some data from last year. Here are the results. First, NGC 2146, a disrupted galaxy in Camelopardalis, with a version much better than the original.

The second better processing was the fourth version of NGC 6946. I think I’ve finally got the best result from the large amount of data (over 6 hours) I took on this object.

I plan on posting a full story of the processing later, once I complete the work on two objects I images last weekend.