Does Nebulb work for processing deep space objects?
Nebulb is a software specially designed for landscape astrophotography, taking into account both the type of equipment usually used by night photographers (short/medium focal length lenses and unmodified cameras), as well as the main types of pictures usually taken in this discipline (Milky Way, star trails and meteor showers).
That said, it is true that Nebulb can also be used to process deep space images (nebulae, galaxies...).
Being a stacking software (which automatically detects and aligns the stars in all images) and thanks to the light pollution reduction module (which allows to greatly reduce the light gradients in the sky, bringing out all the information underneath) it is possible to obtain very surprising results in a really simple way.
Here are a couple of examples of such images processed only with Nebulb:
Andromeda Galaxy (M31), next to which can also be seen the galaxies M110 and M32
Flame and Horsehead nebulae
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