Whirlpool Galaxy - Processing Exercise

Whirlpool Galaxy - Processing Exercise
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Whirlpool Galaxy - Processing Exercise

As a newbie to AP I'm using the bad weather to work on my processing skills with some Telescope Live Data. Any constructive critisism is welcome.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
Telescope Live SPA-2 (Officina Stellare 700 RC)
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
FLI PL16803
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
Oria
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
2032-07-03
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
LRGB
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
AstropixelProcessor
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Credits
Telescope Live
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Comments

Great attempt Wolfgang and I hope you take these comments with the intent they were meant. I will caveat this with, I'm not the best at LRGB processing and there are many on this site far more proficient than I. It looks like to me you have run a process in Astro Pixel Processor which is similar to Pixinsight's Morphological transformation which can result in the odd blobs we see in you image. I struggled so much with it, I don't even use that method any more (others may be able to provide better guidance here). I use either a high pass filter or wavelets to shapen my images. Nic covers this in his tutorials (on this site).Secondly work on your colour a little, try running a colour calibration, or inverting the image and removing the green.

Keep up the great work.