DSLR Widefield with ACC and LHE

[astropixel]

Hi. A widefield with M8 and M20 centre piece. 2 hours 20 minutes 41 frames. This DSLR image was difficult to process. Perhaps more data will help.

5D MKII 200mm f/5.6 ISO800 210sec - calibration frames acquired in the same night. Perhaps a higher ISO would have been better?

Calibration in PI - Bias, darks and flats.
DSLR workflow to integration with Linear pixel clipping
Zbynek's ACC - striking difference in contrast and star colours.
ABE,
ATWT - Linear noise reduction
HT
HTWT - 6 layers x2
DarkStructureEnhance 0.25 x 3
LRGBCombination
HTWT 2 layers x1
LHE 2.5 8bit gave the image a much needed lift defining otherwise  flat areas.
Curves - Saturation - rescale[/li]

[Enzo De Bernardini]

Nice work. I like your very small stars 

Enzo.

[astropixel]

Thanks. I have attempted to keep the image as faithful as possible. But I'm still not convinced that all the gradient has been removed. The full size image 21mb zoomed shows nice round stars and Sharp resolution, but I have no way of posting it. The camera and lens performed well for an unguided shot.

[astropixel]

It's just not quite right - the posted image lacks lustre. Can't say I'm happy with the results, but I'm not sure what the problem is.