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Hello all, My usual once-in-three-year picture, I haven't made much progress since 2017 :D 12 pictures of normally 5 minutes each but I had some technical problems turing acquisition so total is 53min44s with an old Canon EOS450D mounted on a Vixen Polaris mount. Only signal, no dark, no flat, nothi...

So I gave it another try today on the exact same starting picture, and I've got a totally different result: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l4n7qjowcv68iy1/M31_20171410_v2.jpg?dl=0 I can't decide which one is the best. The first one is more subtle, but on the second one the galaxy's limits are clearer, an...

Hi all! Over a year later I am back, necroing my own thread. I hope it's ok. Since the last time I was here I'e got another camera, a Canon EOS 450D. I think it's about as old as my previous Olympus, yet I gave it a try on M31 last night. 17 pictures of 3 minutes each with a 250mm lens opened at 5.6...

Update: I gave it another try tonight, here's the result as a PNG, so that it's not as heavy as the other files. https://www.dropbox.com/s/sdw635r95es24uh/M42_20160227_2.png?dl=0 I also made a bit of editing in Gimp to increase the saturation a bit more once I was done with StarTools. I am more plea...

Hi Ivo and the community! Sorry for digging this up after over a year, but as I started this topic and I'm now going on M42 again, I thought it'd be better than creating a new one. I didn't work on any new picture in over a year simply because I don't have much time to take my gears out, and last ti...

Wow, nice job Ivo! I gave it a try but was never able to reach such a good result with M31. I see I have a lot to learn about StarTools :) would you have a workflow to provide me with? Anyway, after being away for New Year, I am proud to present you my first picture processed through StarTools: M42....

HA! It was in my spam folder from the beginning... To think that meanwhile I have processed M42 at least 3 times "to try" without being able to save it...Anyway. Here's the original file of M31: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l0iuz2e4q2pnrj/M31.fts?dl=0 I haven't tried to work on it because of this blue...

Thanks Ivo, that's very encouraging! :) I hope to be able to give it another try before the end of the year, but it's gonna be hard considering the weather here... The same night I also took M42 and M31, but M31 looks strange, it's very very blue, and the arms of hte galaxy are lost in the noise. Al...

Hi there I'm back! And with a new set of pictures! :) I took advantage of the clear sky last night to try and make more photos of the deep sky, as I currently have my motorised mount with me. So far I have only stacked M45. 25x40s exposures in RAW format (I've learnt), still with my Olympus E600 at ...

Thank you! I'll have a try at these and get back when I have something of my own to show you.