This is my first serious attempt at photographing and processing dust. Choosing the LDN1285 area seemed like a good idea- right at the north celestial pole and always accessible, dust anywhere I aim. This dust, however, is really dim. As far as I know, this dust is the Integrated Flux Nebula, illuminated by the combined starlight of the galaxy rather than a particular star. Also, using the TS65Q f/6.4 APO under Bortle 4 sky was sub-optimal.

So it was challenging - I couldn't coax a decent image out of this data for nearly a year, but finally, it's ready.

Workflow:

1. Preprocessing via WBPP, L drizzled x 2, drop shrink 0,9, square kernel, resampled 50%.
2. SpectrophotometricFLuxCalibration.
3. MultiscaleGradientRemoval.
4. BlurXterminator.
5. StarXterminator.
6. NoiseXterminator, with luminance mask on L.
7. LRGBCombination.
8. StatisticalStretch.
9. Photoshop: lots of cosmetics, HighPass filter, Imagenomic Noiseware6 denoise, saturation, levels, etc.
10. RGB stars stretched with GHS and inserted in PS.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8ZQkeZvzc