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Stars are pretty darn bleached, so much so I thought I accidentally ended up in the PI forums. So agree that some RGB stars will really help. I finally got around to adding rgb stars. The rgb stars were so much tighter than the narrowband stars that I ended up using Layer to add the nebula to the s...

Thanks Freddy. I'm happy with the details and colors in the central part - but it's the faint halo of stars that makes M94 special. That's going to be hard from B6/7-land. I imagine it takes a while to wrap your head around gain and 'conversion mode', coming from only using a dslr for so long. The s...

It is very difficult to do justice to M94 from my SQM 18.8 backyard. I really should have waited for dark-site trips, but I don't do very many of those despite easy access to better skies ~1 hour drive away. The experiment part came about due to playing around with exposure settings. A couple of mon...

Despite the fact that Ekos added the saturation count quite a while ago (a year-ish, I think?), I have not done many broadband projects in the time since and I'm still playing around with combinations. With the M97 I intentionally pushed exposure longer than is (obviously) prudent for the stars. I w...

At the risk of derailing this thread about star cores with a post about star cores :lol: 565 is not, it turns out, a super-magic bullet against flat-disk star cores. But I think you have to work at it. How do I know? Last month I started on am M97/M108 project. I took some test subs and pushed the e...

Very nice, Marko! I must admit it took me a minute to figure out what (CVn) meant :doh: The astrobin link says you used an L-Pro filter for this. Any particular reason why? I have a similar amount of time on M3 also this year from my B6/B7 home, but I always shoot clusters and galaxies without any l...

@all: this is ST forum and not Mike's and Dietmar's private chat. :P Participation is very welcome, of course! Shh! Mike and Dietmar are trying to talk here! :obscene-drinkingcheers: (and I want to know more about what's going on in the "obscene-drinkingcheers" emoji) About Mike's question regardin...

Hi Dietmar - interesting project with the plot, for sure. (and absolutely on target for the thread) (I only removed the M13 because my dropbox is nearly full) Here's how I'm currently thinking about it (but I could be completely wrong!) The real action is happening in just the first few points in th...

The answer is that re-calibrating and registering the subs as 16-bit integer files did indeed resolve the 'greater than 1' issue. Which helps explain why Ivo writes signal processing programs and I sit here and push buttons. Here, by the way, is the 1.9.565 version of the M3 data, properly calibrate...

I'm definitely not proposing we should be doing 16-bit stacking, however the assumption is that the source material is *multiple subs* of 10, 12, 14 or 16-bit quantized data, where values fell within the range of 0 to /1024, 4096, 16384 or 65536. Stacking multiple subs will - in essence - add 2^(st...