Essentially every stacking program have options to reject outlier pixels, such as the satellites. Hell even just averaging the pixels in an image stack without the outlier rejection would greatly diminish the streaks.

I last shot this thing back in 2022, decided to give it another go from darker skies. Captured on April 19th, 2026 from a Bortle 3 zone (Deerlick Astronomy Village).

Places where I host my other images:

Flickr | Pixelfed

Equipment:

• TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

• Orion Sirius EQ-G

• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

• Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

• ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

• Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

• Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

• Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

• ZWO ASI-290mc for guiding

• Moonlite Autofocuser

Acquisition: 8 hours 30 minutes (Camera at unity gain, -15°C)

• L - 68x180"

• R - 34x180"

• G - 34x180"

• B - 34x180"

• Darks- 30

• Flats- 30 per filter

Capture Software:

• Captured using N.I.N.A. and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.

PixInsight Preprocessing:

• BatchPreProcessing

• StarAlignment

• Blink

• ImageIntegration per channel

• DrizzleIntegration (2x, Var β=1.5)

• Dynamic Crop

• Multiscale Gradient Correction with MARS Project data

Luminance linear:

• BlurXterminator

• StarXterminator to completely remove stars (extracted stars processed separately)

• ArcsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear

RGB Linear:

• Channelcombination to make color image from RGB stacks

• SpectrophotometricColorCalibration

• BlurXTerminator

• StarX to remove stars (to be used for star addition later)

• HSV Repair

• ArcsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear

• Slight curves saturation boost and histogram adjustments

Stars only image:

• BlurXterminator for discortion correction and some mild star reduction

• ArcsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear (less aggressive stretch)

• Slight curve adjustments

Nonlinear Processing

• LRGBCombination to combine stretched RGB and L images

• DeepSNR Noise reduction

• Shitloads of curve transformations to adjust luminance, contrast, saturation, etc

• More curves

• NoiseXterminator for small scale chrominance noise reduction

• LocalHistogramEqualization

• Pixelmath to add in the stretched stars only image from earlier

  This basically re-linearizes the two images, adds them together, and then stretches them back to before. More info on it here

  mtf(.005,

  mtf(.995,Stars)+

  mtf(.995,Starless))

• NoiseXTerminator for some small scale chrominance noise reduction

• Resample to 80%

• DynamicCrop in on just the galaxy

• Annotation

update they posted earthrise too

There’s a Gemini logo in the bottom corner

I had like 5 seconds of panic because there was a gray spot in my vision after I accidentally looked at a baileys bead completely unfiltered through my telescope the second the eclipse ended. Turns out I just had a smudge on my glasses :P

Opossums have 13 nipples

easy explanation

It’s the fun criss cross your nerves do before they go into your arm, and is the bane of first year med students everywhere

Not to self promote my own community too much, but !astrophotography@lemmy.world if you wanna see amateur photos of space

Bye, Bob :-(

They actually just got rid of the stars, now you just tip people

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/