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This image and text were just uploaded to Astrobin. https://www.astrobin.com/r2sj4v/ ************************** The Doubly Rare Galaxy: NGC 150 NGC 150 is rare at least two ways: It is rarely imaged (first for Astrobin and my Internet search found no other published amateur images); and it has a rar...

Thanks to all of you for your comments. StarTools is the best thing that's happened to our hobby in a long time.

Russ

I'm pleased to report that my image of NGC 2559, processed with StarTools, has been published in Astronomy Magazine. Take a peek at page 51.

Russ

This text and image were uploaded to Astrobin this morning https://www.astrobin.com/4a8xqy/ Once again, version 1.8 yielded a beautiful result. ***************** Barnard’s Galaxy (NGC 6822), 2021 Version This year I was motivated to improve an image I captured of Barnard’s Galaxy in 2020. I doubled ...

Hello, and sorry for the late reply. I've often wondered how much Ha enhancement is the "right" amount. Take a cruise through Astrobin, and it varies all over the map! The great thing about the new accent tool is how much control it gives us over the intensity of the enhancement, and how well it pre...

Version 1.8 produced some huge improvements to my LMC data. Here are the text and image I posted to Astrobin this morning. https://www.astrobin.com/fk9cx3/ I hope you check out the Astrobin link, because the size reduction and compression required for images on this website seriously degrade the ima...

This image and text were uploaded to Astrobin this morning. https://www.astrobin.com/5hssh9/ Processing was with version 1.8 on an iMac, which continues to blow me away. ******************** This famous cloud complex is one of the easiest star forming places to observe and is visible from both the N...

Thanks for your comment. It's gratifying that an object that's been imaged so many times can still yield wonderful results.

Russ

This image and text were uploaded to StarTools this morning. To see the remarkable detail in the image, please click the link. https://www.astrobin.com/u6yioa/ **************** This celestial wonderland has been described many times in Astrobin, and I won’t repeat the details here. Instead, I’d like...

Hello, I am currently evaluating startools. Are there plans to update it to run natively on apple m1? I managed to install it on mac and go through the hoops to get it to work, but performance running through rosetta 2 emulation seems really bad. Like just pressing a button to open a file there is ...