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Thats odd, I can see it, its not important but i'll try again.

Yeah, my hobbies tend to be a bit on the odd side as well....Crevasse ladder crossing in the Alps.

Yeah the weather up here in the Lakes is total garbage & forecast the same forever.

@RobST Thanks mate, I need to have a look at reducing halos in my stars which I think are caused by the OIII channel from the L-eXtreme.

Thank you. It is hard work but very worthwhile.

I never thought I'd ever post to this section but here it is, my first image. Taken a couple of weeks ago in Bortle 3/4. Its also my first time processing (PI) so please be kind 😬 I've played about with this for a fair few hours until I decided to process using the Hubble Palette which I quite like. 50x180 Lights 30xDarks No Flats as yet Calibrated & Processed in PixInsight Equipment as per my signature Thanks for looking & all CC welcome as its not perfect

Thanks @RobST I appreciate your comment. I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere. Although last night I wanted to see what the image would look like if I put the stars back in. The obsessive part of me decided to start from scratch (Good practise 😂) I like both images but slightly prefer the one with stars. I think I'll leave this now but I will be getting more time on it as soon as the skies clear, this was only 50x180 from one night so I'm keen to see how far I can push it.

Great images there. I'm about 5k into this hobby now since last November, its never ending but more than worthwhile.

Ok, so this is my first image & first time at processing, I chose PixInsight for this which I found hard work but very pleased with my progress so far in the past 3 days. I decided to try the Hubble Palette although I processed it normally to start with & also posted a starless Hubble version in the Samyang thread yesterday as the stars are far from perfect. After obsessing for a while I decided to start all over again & keep the stars as I prefer them in. After many years of wanting to do this I'm loving the journey so far. Equipment used as per my signature. IC1396 From Bortle 3/4 50x180 Lights 30xDarks but no flats as i'm just getting my head round these (vignetting is apparent). Optolong L-eXtreme Filter Thanks for looking & all CC welcomed Steve

I'd say no on the printed rings, I started with a set & overtightened & the thing cracked. I ended up going down the PrimalucLab gear, expensive but so are the pieces of gear been trusted to them.

Thats great thankyou, I'll definitely have a look at that.

@Lee_P I'm certainly sticking with it but christ its hard work 😂

@powerlord Edited with info on the post 🙂

Sorry, I'll edit the post

I hadnt checked Run TGCDenoise box under the TGV Settings tab so every option was greyed out. Its all good now thanks.

Cheers @Mike73 I've spent all day on this 😂

So, I decided to carry on faffing with my image as a fellow SGL member on this thread mentioned a great tutorial for creating a Hubble Palette image (Apologies but I cant find who showed me it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6ObLVRvNk ) This was my first image taken with the Samyang lens & as such the stars were not up to scratch, I removed them with Starnet++ (some like these images some dont but IMO this looks better as my stars were pretty grim) I followed the tutorial & this is the result. I'm well happy with it although there are parts that could be better it'll do me as my first Hubble Palette of my first image (IC1396). I only really started using PI on Friday & although very hard to get your head round I'm really enjoying using it & intend to use it as my main processing software. Any further tweaks to this I'll post in the appropriate section so as not to clog up the thread but thought I'd show this one off , I'm just amazed we can actually capture things like this in the first place🙂 This was 50x 180sec 30x Darks but no flats as I'm just getting used to those Calibrated & processed PI Taken with my signature gear & Optolong L-eXtreme in Bortle 3/4

It worked a treat 🙂

Thankyou so much Tony. Atm i'm learning PI with YouTube tutorials & that step wasnt mentioned. Everything is now active. The main issues I'm coming across with PI are that what seems to be an unsolvable problem, ends up been a simple tick box or window de activated etc, but i'm enjoying using it.....Most of the time. Steve

Thanks for the reply. I've tried with a linear image & its stays greyed out. I'll just have to go through the whole TGV Denoise faff. PI is great but so frustrating. Steve

Hi, I'm a complete beginner to PI but I've come across an issue when trying to run the EZ Denoise script. After selecting my image for noise reduction the option to run it is greyed out? I'm using the trial version of PI so i'm wondering if this is the problem although i've added Starnet++ which runs fine.

Those are great for single subs, I'm next going to FLO & looking at IDAS NBZ Filter 😬

Thanks Rob. I agree, I think I've crammed in about 30hrs of tutorials over the last couple of days & not quite sure what I'm doing now 😂 I think i'll have a break for a few days & go again later although I have learnt quite a few of the basics that i'm happy using now but to much is overload. ATB Steve

Thanks for the advice. Yeah, PI is really hard to get to grips with but some of its processes are great. Its my first time doing AP so all my gear is a learning curve & I thought 'How complicated can PI be.....?'....Erm, very 😬 I'm on a tutorial at the moment with noise reduction & I know you can separate the channels in PI but how to work with them when you have is anyone's guess. I did wonder what was causing the star bloat. The filter is the 1.25" & screwed into an annular ring which is itself screwed into the 11mm spacer. I'll have a look at StarTools as I can see i'm going to probably end up with several pieces of processing software 🙄 I'll take your advice on board, cheers Steve

Thanks for the info. It worked fine & has saved me a lot of hassle trying to export as a tiff into PS & faff around in there.