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Good one, Dietmar! Not an easy target with 60% moon. Very good job on the stars. :thumbsup: The Ghost is already well visible. I usually use the 'No ROI' approach when the FOV contains more nebulosity than background. But here it might be a reasonable approach to get the faint stuff. Maybe we would ...

Hi Ron, I really like the Bubble, especially the one with more nebulosity. In my experience a difficult target, at least I was struggling to get a picture out... The trunk is also pretty cool. I like the unconventional coloring of the pre GIMP version :) The Garnet star doesn't distract but it has a...

Hi Carles, So I had to try regular NBaccent workflow with low agg on wipe and got similar results as that astrobin link saturation.jpg I like that rendition. I had a similar result with saturation on 200% like in your case. I throttled it down a bit. I try to tame my images and myself in that regard...

Hi Freddy, already very promising image. Great to see what you were able to pull out of the little time you had. I also made the experience this year that it stayed often clear much longer than forecasted. So if it was forecasted to be clear until midnight I just hoped for the best and it often work...

Hi Ron, So there I was, poking around Stellarium looking for a reasonable OSC target @910mm to fill new moon time until IC 405 rises high enough, when the Embryo Nebula caught my eye. NGC 1333 - hmm sounds familiar. Oh yea, Stefan's recent post. But there should be better targets which are already h...

Hi Mike! Stefan I think that looks appropriate, other than maybe a green tint to a couple of the yellow stars? :think: Yeah, that's an effect of NBAccent on the stars which I forgot to undo by layering ... :oops: And since I am a lazy guy ... :oops: :oops: The star field in general looks great to me...

Hi Carles, thanks for giving it a try! Here's your and my rendition: Soulanimation.gif In my eyes there's not a big difference in terms of overall nebulosity. Maybe the faint parts very near to the upper edge of the image are a bit brighter in your rendition but that could easily accomplished in NBA...

By the way, this time I used the Scientific approach in Color. Came out fine I think. Artistic looked pretty boring and colors washed out. Stars are bit bloated/haloed. I THINK I know what's causing this. None of the three nights was forecasted to be clear and there were probably clouds around. For ...

Hi Carles and Freddy! although, with 13h of L-enhance, i would have expected to see the nebula more prominent. Could you show the l-enchance file stretch even in BW ? Wonder how much signal is there in comparision of the final image. Yeah, I had the same impression. It's surprisingly faint. Please h...

Hi Dietmar! I reread this thread and I wonder if there's a conclusion regarding the initial point you described - the unexpected problem with your dataset. Are the other stacks (PI and Siril) significant better than your original ASTAP stack? Do you still needed/used Correlation Filtering for your l...