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After nearly 3 months of cloudy nights on the east coast of Australia , the 23rd January provided about 6 hours of clear skies to image, but you guessed it, a near full moon was lighting up the sky. As the ongoing forecast to at least late February early March was more cloudy nights , I decided to p...

Mike, I noticed in Astrobin , your imaging under B8 skies, which makes this image and your processing skills top notch 👍 Yes I’ve imaged quite a few galaxies under our southern skies but only with my 2600MC over 3 years.However, since purchasing the 2600MM in late August , the new moon period has be...

Mike, I’m not familiar with M33 as we southerners don’t see it , but I must say you’ve captured and processed a wonderful image for only 6 hours worth of data. Also I had no idea you’ve only been involved with Astrophotography for only 3 or so years , your knowledge and understanding of the hobby es...

Hi Mike, Thanks for your reply Maybe mentioning stars had you confused Dietmar’s link was what is I was looking for I’m trying to process an SHO data set to mimic closely an LRGB or RGB image result. I know it’s impossible to achieve that exact look, but Dietmar’s link led me to Guys User Notes in C...

Hi Dietmar,
Thanks for the link
I’ll try to follow Ivo and Guys procedures once I capture some good data
Stay warm , keep safe , clears skies will eventually come to Germany I’m sure.

Martin

One of my next projects is using my Mono rig and capturing an SHO data set , capturing RGB stars on a bright nebula like M42 and trying to process it as a visual spectrum or broadband result. I’m imaging under Bortle 8 skies so my broadband RGB subs are limited to 30 to 60 sec subs, luminance is wor...

Mike, Thanks for your learned reply as always At least I’m not the only one who has picked this up with Dim Small To be honest , I found HDR and Life in 1.5 to 1.7 more functional with superior results from that of HDR and SS in 1.8 I don’t normally use the majority's of modules for processing, it’s...

Whilst working on my latest project , NGC 2070 Tarantula Nebula, I noticed that the Dim Small preset for the Super Structure module does have a negative affect on large nebulous structures like the main body of Tarantula. Dim small works beautifully on a busy Star field and fine nebulosity in those ...

super lovely, for me SHO v2 it has the most billowing structure height Thank you What makes this capture so challenging is that I only had a small window of time between obstructions ( less than 2 hours ) My roofline , a TV antenna and a big tree. The weather down under on the east coast has been c...

Absolutely marvels, all of them. I think i prefer the blue/reddish the most...but maybe only today, tomorrow i might choose another one :D I am sitting here and waiting for clear skies to come, but when will that be....cause i want to make my first SHO too...i just bought the filters and have the m...