I shot M8 back in June. I was originally a bit overzealous in processing it the first time though, and it looked off. Sometimes you chase certain features to expose, and being laser focused on that, you lose sight of the "big picture". I wasn't in the mood to start over, so I put it aside for the time time being. With the new release of BlurXTerminator, I took the opportunity to give a whirl with this data set. My more recent projects have all been with the focal reducer. My past experiments with conventional deconvolution didn't show a meaningful improvement with reducer images where I was shooting at the pixel scale of 1.3 arcsec/pixel. I'm shooting at .89 with the flattener, and more oversampled so I saw an improvement, so I decided to give BlurXTerminator a better chance to shine with the oversampled data. The details it exposed is impressive. These targets low on the horizon are often somewhat disappointing to me, so this tool is a real improvement.
I shot this as a straight LRGB. I had shot some Ha to blend in with the Red, but it wasn't really adding a lot more detail, so I did without. I did shoot some SII and OIII, so I produced a
SHO version, which I posted separately.
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