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Maybe I will drop a post in Mike's thread. He's so silent :mrgreen: Not sure if serious. :think: ;) I have been relatively quiet lately. Work, errands, commuting, chores, clouds, new cat condo, and maybe a mild case of Corned Beef and Cabbage Coma. Enough housekeeping. A number of interesting point...

SQM 21 isn't dark eh.... :( What a cool and unusual target. Looking at some references, you even got that little blob of red in the middle. :thumbsup: The Oiii side is pretty noisy. I can't say I'm looking forward to 3 hours from urban skies! ;) Stars are pretty darn bleached, so much so I thought I...

Nice to see you getting some time in, Dietmar! :D That's a fine M106. Brings back memories of mine. It was a monthly challenge and turned into a purple disaster. :lol: But that led to buying a screen calibrator, so all good in the end. Yes a number of stars seem to have a mild CA or Pepsi effect, po...

Nice capture, Martin! What a great target.

Sure looks like more than 5 hours, doesn't it?

Ok , let me see if I’ve got your procedure correct , so select L + Synthetic L from RGB, R ( GB) ( GB) Bi Color Load Ha into R ( Sii ) slot , load Oiii into G (Ha )slot , load Oiii again into B ( Oiii ) slot but move this slider back to zero ! Question: For Ha R slot and Oiii G slot should I adjust...

Hi Martin! Oh boy, when I first saw this post I assumed you were doing this at the rural site. I think it may be the wiser choice. I mean hopefully the hours stack up well and you get something strong enough, but... :confusion-shrug: Moving on...Mike advised what? Golly, that doesn't sound like me. ...

BTW: When are we going to continue filling up our table? ;) I'm curious about the other modules, Super Structure, Denoise ... But of course, I'm not sure if this isn't going to be a 2025 edition ... :mrgreen: Ha. Well Dietmar, 2024 still has a lot of time left in it. :D After additional reading esp...

just sharing to me on my monitor the LRGB stars are slightly stronger in colour seen most on amber stars where as the LGB are less colour intense, is that maybe why they appear slightly tighter Yes, no, maybe? :? For the star tightness, no it was actually spatial. I would have made a blinking GIF, ...

...continuing my conversation with myself... :lol: I was able to experiment more last night. Again maybe something I was doing wrong, thought-wise, but never could get ST to accept a non-linear L to combine with linear RGB to apply as per the Color module. The plan had been to use another program to...

Wondering if you came across this one? https://www.astrobin.com/forum/c/astrophotography/deep-sky/horrible-vignetting-with-asi6200-and-at130edt/ Now that's a full frame camera, but still kind of similar. And his circle artifact does "fit" a little better across his sensor. They float a few theories,...