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Hi Freddy, already very promising image. Great to see what you were able to pull out of the little time you had. I also made the experience this year that it stayed often clear much longer than forecasted. So if it was forecasted to be clear until midnight I just hoped for the best and it often work...

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 ...