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Really nice, Dietmar! I'm sure you'll have that 16-panel mosaic of the full Loop ready soon (right?). I think the stars look pretty good. When I layer in the rgb, I usually use a star mask made from the narrow-band image. That helps keep the color from bleeding out too much into the surroundings, bu...

After all the story I was not expecting such a pretty image! The place I went last weekend was about as dark as I can get to around here (B4), but no problem walking around in the "dark". The Milky Way was nice, but I'm sure just a shadow of the view you had! (it was warm, though - walked around wit...

Hey, Mike's back! :greetings-waveyellow: Wow - thanks for all the nice words, everyone! The OSC data are way weird in terms of old-52. Saturated at the core, of course, but any sort of regular sampling gives a blue-dominant near-core ring. 52_as-sampled.jpg Why? Beats me. Something about non-linear ...

(except for the bright star - it looked awful when I tried to add color) W_Veil_Lu__nr5_opti-16-shadows-25_osc-stars_v1_bp_1920.jpg Having had to buy a new computer sucked in many ways, but moving up 12 years worth of cpu and gpu tech and going from 16GB to 64GB RAM makes for a huge improvement in S...

Thanks! (I mostly meant that I probably would not try to share the 100% resolution, unbinned version - but such is at least technically justifiable with CFA drizzle where it is not with debayering) As for star profiles - it does something different, but I have no idea what it means. SVD sampling cho...

Instead of doing a proper 1:1 comparison, I moved on top a different dataset (because that's what one does to avoid a proper test :) ). When I finallt do a proper test I don't expect life-altering results. In theory, there should be some subtle improvement in the noise profile, especially color nois...

I suppose it is technically an English expression - but I thought universally understood here in the good ol' U S of A.

I'm not convinced yet that "too dim" is non-recoverable - but I am concerned about a squashing of dynamic range in the DSO-zone. Which is why I did the dual-process thing here.

I think you want the Packaging -> win64 job asset. The current URL is https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/jobs/6943381480/artifacts/download but this will be overwritten, and therefore become invalid, by the next commit. Hi LuckyEddie, I want to thank you again for pointing me at the gitlab artif...

I wonder if this loss of brightness (aka less allocation of dynamic range to the mid-tones) is simply a consequence / by nature or more of a collateral damage of this 'tranches-solution'? Hi Dietmar, Yes, I think you put it very well there. I think that's why Ivo resisted it originally - dynamic ra...

No star reduction here! A few LDN dark nebulae, including LDN 807 so that's what I named the capture sequence. I guess so many of the distant Milky Way background stars look reddish due to dust? 2.5 hours, AT65EDQ, Risingcam IMX571c, Low-conversion gain, 45s subs. Crop / Wipe / Optidev / SVD / Color...