Heart and Soul nebula

On our journey to shot the best images we can with our non ideal setup we collected more data on the heart nebula. Main problem with our setup is the distance of the sensor which is not perfect and results in bad star shapes in the corners. Stepping down to 2.8 and using BXT helps a lot. Combined with old data we gathered a total exposure time of 14 hours.

Samyang 135mm @f2.8 and f2.0
Fuji X-T5 (unmodified)
STC dual narrowband filter
Star Adventurer 2i
856 x 60s
ISO 3200

Editing:

stacked, remove green noise, BGE in Siril
BXT, SXT in Pixinsight
streched with GHS in Siril
NXT, colouring, contrast, recombining stars in PS

Full resolution: https://telescopius.com/pictures/view/211833/deep_sky/ic-1824/heart-and-soul-nebula/by-maxi_franzi

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1•24 days ago
Damn 800+ frames. How long did it take to stack?
- @bistdunarrischOP
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  2•24 days ago
  I didn’t check but would guess right about one hour. Plus ~30min registration. Normally I just start the process and leave my laptop and come back later, so I don’t know for sure.

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