IC 1805 or Merlotte 15, the core of the Heart Nebula

IC 1805 or Merlotte 15, the core of the Heart Nebula, Location Fundy National Park, Fundy Stargaze 2024. I received the ZWO Seestar S50 as a gift and finally went to a dark sky area to give it a good test. I was thrilled to see the data after being post processed result in the photo included here.

ZWO Seestar S50 smart scope (250mm focal length, 50mm aperture ar f7, alt az tracking) 1 hour amd 30 minutes exposure time (10 second frames).

About 550 frames at 10 seconds each were stacked using Siril and the AstroBBQ script for Ha and OIII data processing for normalization, rejection stacking, background extraction and the Hubble Pallet; deconvolution was done manually by Siril. Noise reduction was done by using GraXpert. Histogram adjustment was done in Siril, high pass filters, sharpening and star spikes were done in PS...