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Spikey last won the day on June 12 2012

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  1. Well done to the winners ! I'm personally learning a bit more about the various imaging packages and trying techniques I wouldn't normally do; such as trying and purchasing StarTools. Having such good data, far better than I could ever collect issuch a bonus for doing this. Thanks IKO & SGL !
  2. Star Tools 1.8 Beta, NB accents as SII, set orientation and played around with colour and saturation.
  3. Not seen the moon framed in this way before Peter, very impressive image.
  4. Well deserved winners, a very difficult image to process. IKI has been a bit of a Mojo saver for me after years of weather, time and kit restrictions.
  5. 2nd go, this time I added the Ha. First time with Startools and quite impressed with it, especially for the price.
  6. First go with Star tools and the start of a new learning curve ! Couldn't figure out how I could add the Ha prior to 1.8 so left it out.
  7. Congratulations, John ! 50k amazing ! I think SGL is also glad that you found them, your knowledge is second to none and you are a patient, helpful person (even when outside lights are left on!) Hope to see you again at another star party in the near future.
  8. A truly fascinating image Peter and well worth the enormous amount of effort you've clearly gone to.
  9. You can't go wrong with 'Making Every Photon Count' by Steve Richards. https://www.firstlightoptics.com/books/making-every-photon-count-steve-richards.html Then if you want to process your images nicely; https://www.firstlightoptics.com/books/dark-art-or-magic-bullet-steve-richards.html
  10. Here's my effort. Pixinsight and Photoshop hybrid. Histogram equalistion of B & G to R channel then RGB combination. ArcSin then Masked stretch and RGB as a tiff for photoshop. Lum just a tiny histogram and then a masked stretch saved as tiff. RGB saturation boost and gaussian blur then lum added as luminosity. Noels smaller stars and increase star colour then local contrast enhance. Back to PI for dark enhance. Saved as a PNG for faster loading on site.
  11. I used a HEQ5 portably succesfully for a few years. I've owned 2 of them and I would go as far to say its the best mount you can buy for the price point. It was significantly easier to manage, break down and setup than my NEQ6.
  12. I'd have been ecstatic to get 11 images a year ! More like 3 or 4 when I've got the time and am not knackered enough to show an interest. The IKI stuff has really got me interested again in processing so the mojo iss just about there still. I would have liked some decent pics of the comet but c'est la vie.
  13. A few firsts here ! M33 has always been my absolute nemesis and I'm pleased to have been able to use some excellent data to play with. Secondly, this is my first go at using PixInsight and I haven't really got a clue what I'm doing. Anyway, I did so much that I've forgotten what I did but I am very pleased with the result !
  14. I wanted to do something a little bit different as it's been a while since I processed any images. So I made life easier for myself and processed all 3 channels in mono and then combined them. I removed the stars in starnet to make it more ghost like, in fact , quite like a dementor !
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