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dx_ron wrote: ↑23 Jul 2024, 15:23 (an American expression) Wait...wut? :? :lol: Well, guys - there are maybe thousands of miles between your homes - so why not having local phrases? ;) My contribution: 'Wasch mit den Pelz, aber mach mich nicht nass.' - more or less literal translation (finest 'Germ...

With the '16-bit tranches' in the latest beta I figured now was a good to to revisit the data. I also realized that I could cheat a bit - because the "nebula" parts of the image are quite small. So I processed twice and Layered the two together. Hi Ron, yes I'm also glad that we now have a means to...

Looks great, Carles :) . Amazing to see, what's possible for you under Bortle 8 skies. :bow-yellow: "Usual ST workflow" means processing with NB Accent, I suppose? I still have to try that, too. But weather here doesn't allow for it. Clouds, rain and still missing astrodark :( Why do you stack with ...

Here are some impressions on how the new "Brightness Tranches" setting works. Processing was: Bin 71% preset, Crop, Wipe Basic preset but aggressiveness boosted up to 96% because of some gradients. Then OptiDev, IFD about 6 px and ROI as shown. "Brightness Tranches" setting increased from 10 up to 1...

Thank you much for paying attention to this, Ivo.
I will reprocess my M63 and get back here soon.

Dietmar.

Hi Martin, All of your last images are of excellent quality. Seems that you figured out everything to perfection. :thumbsup: And thanks for mentioning your experience using AutoDev vs. FilmDev in this case. Very interesting. I guess we will have some more discussions regarding OptiDev ... but I hope...

I think I remember that from Andy, but thought it was before the latest OptiDev fix? I agreed with his sentiment, but was of the opinion that old OptiDev-AutoDev was causing some of that harshness, and again due to the stellar profile problem as we have found. But I'd have to go back to old threads...

I find the stretches of autodev to be very conservative and low contrast - especialy in the later versions of startools Yes the latest release can give a feeling of being muted after OptiDev, relative to what we were probably all used to. This came about from increasing bit depth...or something lik...

It's like I have a new computer. :thumbsup: I like the fact that you you're not throwing away old hardware and that you are running Linux. In the past I always assembled my PCs by myself and installed Linux on them. The only reason that I'm currently using Windows is because it came pre-installed o...

Polar lights visible way down in Southern California! Who would have thought?! I was ill-prepared. :( I was ill-prepared, too. Mostly, because I just didn’t believe that there would be anything to see or to photograph. And than I only had my compact camera mounted onto a super tiny tripod, crawling ...