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That is excellent Che - they blend in beautifully!

Thanks Che! I like your result: however, I still feel the colors are bit too "warm" and that I am missing some saturation. Maybe it's because I am used to the "canonical" way of displaying such images, which could differ from what one gets by using a more scientifically accurate palette… Ivo: I am ...

Hi Nico, Thanks and welcome to the ST forums! I like what Che already did with your data and I had a look myself as well. It appears the data has been stretched already (and the color has been meddled with - it seems to be clipping). You didn't shoot in JPEG did you? If not (you shouldn't!) and you ...

Much improved version here http://astrob.in/104807/B/ Love that version! Fantastic detail, and great colors. My only nitpick (I always have at least one :P) Would be the star rounding you applied (correct?). There is a trick to make them blend in a little better (which I should've made part of the ...

Auto Dev. You set Ignore Fine Detail at 4.8; I used 3.2. You set Outside RIO Influence 4%; I left mine on the default 15%. I also struggle with where to set "Ignore Fine Detail" in Auto Dev., and Grain size in De-noise; similar issues. How does one begin to determine these parameters? The Ignore Fi...

Oh! One other thing I really meant to ask. In Wipe, did you not mask out M 101? I have been in the habit of always masking out galaxies, so as not to lose fine detail in the galaxy. I tried it both ways just now, and see only a slight difference overall, but I think I like the masked out one better...

Now I get it. Awesome :) Thanks for sharing the M101 data with me. This is what I came up with; M 101 39X170.jpg Workflow was the following; --- Auto Develop Default parameters to see what we got. We can see big red bias, stacking artifacts, fair bit of noise. --- Bin Parameter [Scale] set to [(sca...

Thanks Ivo! Now I get it... :oops: Somehow i was getting the idea that this was something new. I am more than willing (in fact, I'd love to) to send the fore mentioned .fit file, but again I can't find your e-mail address. If you need mine, its trobbet at aol. Thanks again for all the help, Tom I P...

Ivo, I read the above linked thread, but I still don't get when in the process its best to go to the Denoise module and do a "setup", and get the most out of doing this. If not where I did it, then after Decon, Sharpen, HDR, or right before turning off tracking and doing your final denoise?? Use de...

Ivo, this is awesome software, I've been processing all morning....BUT...the Healing feature has made me TapOut, can you throw some knowledge my way and give me a idea on how to use this? I'm trying to get a star halo out of an image of m5......Thanks ....Glenn Hi Glenn, Would you be able to post a...