My second (and first successful) try of the orion nebula. Any advice for editing out the noise and these stripes? What are these?
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85 Lens: H-FSA100300 (100-300mm f4-5.6) Settings: f6.4, ISO 6400, 5"
1020 pics at 5s each + calibration frames
Total exposure: 85 minutes / 1.4 hours
One trick for removing walking noise in post is to use a tool like StarNet++ to decompose the image into stars and nebulae, then mask out the nebula in the image. Invert the mask and desaturate.
Like others said, if possible, try dithering in the future. It’ll help to minimize walking noise to begin with. It’s pretty easy to configure in most imaging software, but typically requires autoguiding.
I don’t have an autoguider and obviously don’t want to do it manually, so I’m just doing this in post next time