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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...

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the detailed reply. Very tasteful processing. And I fully agree with your opinion on clean data. I usually tend to overprocessing nonetheless. But I am getting better at it

Thanks for sharing your mono adventure!

Regards
Stefan

I had a look at the PI stack and had the impression that it is the best stack so far (thanks again, Mike!). Maybe the subframe weighting had some impact. I settled on a rendition between Mike's version and Carles' artistic version: https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/DnpQ4t6WkX5M_2560x0_rv2QpFNw.jpg I a...

Hi all,

Thanks for your feedback. I am currently away from my PC and will answer in detail when I am back home.

Mike, thanks again, looking forward to processing your PI stack!

Regards
Stefan

Stefan, how do you treat youre stars. I've seen they are always pretty nice without any halo's at all. I think there are often quite some halos, Dietmar also noticed them recently (https://forum.startools.org/viewtopic.php?p=14733#p14733) ;) You can also see them in my recent cluster images (https:...

Hi Martin, that looks insane :bow-yellow: Really wished this target would be within reach for me. Together with the dragons of Ara my favourite southern target out of reach ;) The handling of the dynamic range is impressive to me. Did you use HDR or is it just the 2600MM handling the high dynamic ra...

Hi Carles and Freddy, thanks for your feedback! you should try adding some "dark anomaly filter" on Wipe. DAF was 15 pixels ;) Were there errors in the capture? I mean , any idea what went wrong? In terms of acquisition I used the very same camera settings than for my three most recent images (Carol...