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Hello team, Looking for advice/direction. I use the L-Enhance and now L-Extreme on emission nebulae with QHY168C OSC cooled from Bortle 8 and love the performance. Working on Eastern Veil currently and used the Compose process in StarTools v1.8.512 for HOO Bi-Color image. In Color, for now, left RGB...

Very nice Mike! Great star color and Cocoon/dust tail detail :thumbsup: I'm looking to try something like this for the first time on another target (Veil) with my QHY168C using L-Pro and L-Extreme filters and your image inspires me to go for it. I have to admit, I tried following that forum discussi...

@Ivo, I made updates to my Windows 10 and now the GPU version works; very exciting! Thanks.

Superb! Well deserved!

@Ivo, you hit the nail on the head with "It is perhaps worth mentioning though, that normally Deconvolution is extremely sensitive to noise or artefacts and singularities (such as over-exposing star cores, or hot/dead pixels, etc.)." That is probably the crux of the problem in my case as shooting fr...

You are not alone with the wild pixels; I recently processed 9 separate globular cluster stacks taken over the last several months using the Optolong L-Pro filter and intensive processing in release 512 with great results (love 1.8xxx). I first used SVDecon module in Synthetic mode (default) and no ...

Just ask Ivo...he knows everything!

Thanks Ivo, will certainly try this L-Enhance-UV/IR combo as you outlined. I assume when creating the two separate stacks in DSS you simply use a reference light frame from the first night's stack, add it to the 2nd night's stack as the reference frame but ensure it is unchecked; this should properl...

Interesting suggestions from all, worth trying out to get the nasty blue/cyan gremlin pushed back a little (besides tweaking the RGB sliders in Color module). In the Compose module, after putting L-Enhance data in Luminance and Visual Spectrum in RGB slots, what would you set the Luminance, Color se...