New Noise Reduction Tool NoiseXTerminator
I do want to talk about a new tool that I went ahead and bought for noise reduction. It works both in PI and in Photoshop and is called NoiseXTerminator.
After messing with it I doubt I will be using EZ Denoise in PI and my Topaz Denoise AI will be relegated to normal images rather than astrophotography. It is incredibly fast too.
NoiseXTerminator also protects your stars unlike what you see with Topaz Denoise. AI when using Photoshop, and when using Pixinsight it is far faster and does a better job than what you get with any of the other methods I've used there, plus is just as easy and a ton faster than EZ Denoise.
I would reccomend it being added to your bag of tricks if you're like me and stretch things super hard. Here's a 100% crop included after running it.
It would definitely be worth snagging it for at least the free trial period just to check it out.
The data I used for this was from Telescope Live and is available here as One Click Observations https://app.telescope.live/click-grab/all?target=IC348
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