Orion the Hunter wide field

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LanFeusT
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Orion the Hunter wide field

Post by LanFeusT »

Hi all!

After a few months of not being able to go out, I finally took my scope out last night... weather was near perfect. If it wasn't for the wind :(
Absolutely impossible to image anything deep, constant and inconsistent wind the whole night. I decided to try something I meant to try for a while but never did, I hooked up my DSLR on top of my Celestron 8SE with a Canon 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Roughly 1h 30minutes of data later @ISO 800, ranging from 10 mins subs down to 30 seconds, this is what I was able to get!

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I kinda skipped Decon, HDR and Sharpen, I tried them all but on such a wide field it really didn't seem to be doing much so decided not to do them at all.

Workflow:

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StarTools 1.3.5.289
Sun Feb 07 12:25:07 2016
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File loaded [F:\Astrophotography\Wide Field\Orion - 2016-02-07\Autosave.fts].
--- 
--- Bin
Parameter [Scale] set to [(scale/noise reduction 50.00%)/(400.00%)/(+2.00 bits)]
--- Auto Develop
Parameter [Ignore Fine Detail <] set to [Off]
Parameter [Outside ROI Influence] set to [15 %]
--- Crop
Parameter [X1] set to [169 pixels]
Parameter [Y1] set to [138 pixels]
Parameter [X2] set to [2408 pixels (-193)]
Parameter [Y2] set to [1618 pixels (-114)]
--- Wipe
Parameter [Mode] set to [Correct Color & Brightness]
Parameter [UNKNOWN] set to [No]
Parameter [Precision] set to [256 x 256 pixels]
Parameter [Dark Anomaly Filter] set to [1 pixels]
Parameter [Drop Off Point] set to [0 %]
Parameter [Corner Aggressiveness] set to [100 %]
Parameter [Aggressiveness] set to [75 %]
--- Develop
Parameter [White Calibration] set to [Use Stars]
Parameter [Gamma] set to [1.00]
Parameter [Skyglow] set to [0 %]
Parameter [Digital Development] set to [68.21 %]
Parameter [Blue Luminance Contrib.] set to [100 %]
Parameter [Green Luminance Contrib.] set to [100 %]
Parameter [Red Luminance Contrib.] set to [100 %]
Parameter [Dark Anomaly Headroom] set to [5 %]
Parameter [Dark Anomaly Filter] set to [Off]
--- Life
Parameter [Detail Preservation] set to [Linear Brightness Mask]
Parameter [Compositing Algorithm] set to [Multiply, Gamma Correct]
Parameter [Inherit Brightness, Color] set to [Off]
Parameter [Output Glow Only] set to [No]
Parameter [Airy Disk Sampling] set to [128 x 128 pixels]
Parameter [Airy Disk Radius] set to [8 pixels]
Parameter [Glow Threshold] set to [4 %]
Parameter [Detail Preservation Radius] set to [20.0 pixels]
Parameter [Saturation] set to [100 %]
Parameter [Strength] set to [50 %]
Parameter [Mask Fuzz] set to [1.0 pixels]
File loaded [F:\Astrophotography\Wide Field\Orion - 2016-02-07\Autosave_mask.tiff].
--- Color
Parameter [Cap Green] set to [To Yellow]
Parameter [Bias Slider Mode] set to [Sliders Reduce Color Bias]
Parameter [Style] set to [Scientific (Color Constancy)]
Parameter [LRGB Method Emulation] set to [Straight CIELab Luminance Retention]
Parameter [Dark Saturation] set to [3.30]
Parameter [Bright Saturation] set to [Full]
Parameter [Saturation Amount] set to [350 %]
Parameter [Blue Bias Reduce] set to [1.21]
Parameter [Green Bias Reduce] set to [1.26]
Parameter [Red Bias Reduce] set to [1.30]
Parameter [Mask Fuzz] set to [1.0 pixels]
--- Contrast
Parameter [Expose Dark Areas] set to [No]
Parameter [Compensate Gamma] set to [No]
Parameter [Precision] set to [128 x 128 pixels]
Parameter [Dark Anomaly Filter] set to [1 pixels]
Parameter [Aggressiveness] set to [75 %]
Parameter [Dark Anomaly Headroom] set to [15 %]
File loaded [F:\Astrophotography\Wide Field\Orion - 2016-02-07\Autosave_mask.tiff].
--- Wavelet De-Noise
Parameter [Scale 1] set to [90 %]
Parameter [Scale 2] set to [90 %]
Parameter [Scale 3] set to [90 %]
Parameter [Scale 4] set to [90 %]
Parameter [Scale 5] set to [0 %]
Parameter [Mask Fuzz] set to [1.0 pixels]
Parameter [Scale Correlation] set to [3]
Parameter [Color Detail Loss] set to [12 %]
Parameter [Brightness Detail Loss] set to [12 %]
Parameter [Grain Size] set to [1.3 pixels]
Parameter [Read Noise Compensation] set to [Off]
Parameter [Smoothness] set to [75 %]
File saved [F:\Astrophotography\Wide Field\Orion - 2016-02-07\Autosave.tiff].
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