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Well, there's probably not a WHOLE lot of LP to be had. The Baader does an awfully nice job, and I make a point of selecting the darkest part of the sky when shooting from home. It IS color balanced...that's part of one of DSS's settings...either Per Channel background calibration, or RGB background...

Gordon, good to see you back in the saddle! Hope life has been treating you well in the meantime. Eh...ups and downs, you know. Just lots going on. :) We DO have a new "base of operations" for AP trips however :) http://i.imgur.com/psmOolh.jpg Hmmm... the data appears stretched - pretty rare to see...

Managed to come up with a slightly better effort this afternoon, I think.
Colors are better, and the processing isn't so "heavy-handed", imo.

Hey gang...been a while! Life keeps happening, donchya know. So, late last week I finally managed to get the scope out, and get a little over an hour of NGC 6960, from the red zone that is my back yard. Now, glancing at the raw TIF (Link below) I expected some pretty pleasing results...rarely have I...

On a side note its really great that startools has such a nice community of people helping each other out. I agree. So much of this stuff is subjective...let's be honest, our human eyes could never see these objects as we photograph them, EVEN if we only photograph in "visible light". And until we ...

grant.pullen wrote: 8. There is no make coffee button
10. I had to make a 10 point list thus my final request is that you give yourself a pat on the back for creating such a great tool

I fully support these two features, Ivo.

Figured I'd take a shot as well. :) http://i.imgur.com/8LYOB6q.jpg --- Bin Parameter [Scale] set to [(scale/noise reduction 50.00%)/(400.00%)/(+2.00 bits)] --- Auto Develop - Used a ROI around the object . Parameter [Gamma] set to [0.63] Parameter [Outside ROI Influence] set to [5 %] Parameter [Igno...

I know some folks are "offended" or whatever about artificially adding diffraction spikes to stars...but I believe it can be a true enhancement if it's not overdone. I think you absolutely nailed it here...that adds just the right touch to this image, imo, and handled a tricky issue with the stars t...

M101 - 2013-05-13 from Red Zone SE of Nashville, TN USA http://i.imgur.com/CelHySc.jpg Orion ED80T CF CG5 Mount, guided by Orion SSAG and 50mm Guidescope EOS 1100D, managed by BackyardEOS HoTech SCA Field Flatener Baader Moon and Skyglow Nd filter 45 x 180" (Top 80% of 56) at ISO 400, 2hr 15m integr...

Just as an exercise in "What did I get?", I reprocessed this crop of the drizzled stack, focusing exclusively on drawing as much of that disturbance out as I could.