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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...

While the weather of winter and spring of 2022/23 has been really bad for imaging the weather since solstice was really generous... So I got the opportunity to turn to a bright emission nebula in the last couple of days. Or so I thought. I had imagined that the Soul Nebula wouldn't be so faint. I am...

Now, I can think of several times where I was processing broadband and put the Style and LRGB Method back (sometimes just one), but I can't think of any image where I took Broadband out of Scientific and went into Artistic. Just FYI: My latest NGC 1333 in this thread also uses the artistic option a...

Speaking of speed - you are right that it seems 1.9 SVD needs a little tweaking or revamping still, but the speed and other improvements over 1.8 seem vast. Hard to go back! Also I was just playing with Ron's Crescent data, running the mono extracts with minimal module use (OptiDev, HDR, SVD), and ...

I don't really know what Stack was it to be honest, that should be pointed out by Stefan. It's been the Siril stack. I put one sub each of your lights, darks, and flats into ASTAP to run the SQM tool. SQM 20.58 i.e. Bortle 4.5. Seem about right? Pretty nice especially for the altitude you were imag...