M78 2 panel mosaic

M78 2 panel mosaic
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M78 2 panel mosaic

This is a 2 panel mosaic from the M78 Mosaic set here at Telescope Live with the CHI-1 telescope. It was a little bit of a challenge to process. I am tempted to book time for luminance on this.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
CHI-1 Planewave CDK24
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
CHI-1 FLI PL16083
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Observatorio El Sauce
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Various
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Astrodon RGB
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
APP and Photoshop
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Scotty Bishop/Telescope Live
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Hi Scotty, this is such a huge challenge for me, I had to delete everything and just grabbed the latest CMOS data on M78 out of frustration. Can you please share your workflow? I normally use Astro Pixel Processor for mosaic stacking, and Pixinsight/WBPP for everything else. However, the Red, Green, and Blue Master lights all had white pixels all over the image as if small cells of data was missing. I tried Pixinsight, but since all the frames were dumped in one folder, I had to check each frame to determine which panel it belonged to, unlike before where TL had separate folder for each panel! However, wbpp gave me errors. Any help or advice would be truly appreciated, sincerely, Dave!

Just had a go at this. Dumped one red sub due to the issues it gave with satellites and then let APP integrate with weighting on quality. The dead pixels I remove in photoshop using the 'Dust and Scratches' filter. I repaired residual satellite trails and the dust mot blob on the green channel with the spot adjustment tool in PS after removing stars.