Craigar on CN

22 minutes total from 4 and 6 second exposures Loosely followed processing method from https://www.youtube.com/@AstroFarsography titled "Astrophotography Editing Tutorial With Affinity Photo" exported and processed with "AstroSharp by Deep Sky Detail" (AI shrpining) opened in Afffinity Photo for another curve adjustment and also applied "Shadow Stretch" and 60% "Enhance Structure" from James Ritson's "JR - Astrophotography V15 (16-bit)" free macro package. bortle 6, fair seeing equipment: C8 > IRc ut > Ds10c/imx294 Exos II PMC-8 mount

Installed James Ritson AP macros https://jamesritson.gumroad.com/ very powerful and adjustable Here's the previous M17 composition with JR's "EnhaceNebula" at 60% opacity and "Hue Masked Structure" at 64% strength - working with 16 bit color depth

Just bought and installed affinity-photo-2.1.1 and used it to do some layer masking and develop persona for curves VERY Nice! This was captured with an 8 inch SCT telescope in Calabassas, CA over a 2 hour period last month using a Sony IMX294 camera sensor, stacked with DSS. Info about M17 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Nebula

I'm hoping for 1/2 price for Win 64 and followed this article from https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/au/news/its-back-affinity-photo-editing-suite-is-half-price Thank You Craig