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  1. I wish my best years of imaging yielded just one result as good as those two
  2. Sorry to hear about the size issues that’s a real shame. I would 100% concur though it should not be thought of as portable!!
  3. I know I already posted one of these from RGB data the other week but this is a merge of February's full moon shot in mono as Lum with RGB from March's but at different resolutions. Stuck home with the dreaded virus so I thought I'd give it a shot and it took me most of the day. RGB manually aligned and scaled in Gimp, colour processed in Star Tools and light wavelets in Registax. I prefer this look to the bi-colour.
  4. Thank you! Wish I knew why I can do the same processing on different RGB sets on different nights and get seemingly different colours.
  5. Stunning. One of the best I've seen, the blue (OIII) is deep bountiful & beautiful (unless I'm trying to capture it!)
  6. After my first got a couple of weeks ago thought I'd try again on the full disk last week. Processing separate RGB channels in such a way to pull the subtle colours out was time intensive manual, non-repeatable and I think I may use a OSC next time! Far too red/brown. Poor masking has nibbled away at the left edge please excuse. AS! then Gimp for RGB channel alignment then Star Tools for their colourisation matrices then back into Registax for Wavelets. TS130, ASI1600 EFW
  7. Please be gentle! I normally do deep sky and thus have despised this object for many years... but decided since it was ruining my first clear night for months I would attempt to image it. I've always loved those images with exaggerated colours so I had a go myself though I know i have overdone it and they are not to all tastes. 2 pane mosaic with combined RGB. Processing was a bodge across different platforms, AS!, MS ICE, Gimp (for aligning the RGB channels - trial & error), Startools then back to gimp for more colour manipulation. I couldn't control the edge colours I know they look bad, but I am happy now because I now like the Moon and thus can play when it's out as this was fun. Thanks for looking. Scope was TS Optics 130 F/7 0.8X FF/Red ASI1600MM & EFW
  8. What did you use to get the mount polar aligned? If that's off then it won't track, also very important to make sure it's all in balance. Sorry if I'm telling you to suck eggs but I went through all this pain too!
  9. I've always wondered about this and come to the conclusion, given the stacking artefacts from long sessions over multiple nights often involve me having to crop the fringes off anyway which is where any errant elongated stars would show, that I'm not going to lose any sleep over the exact spacing.
  10. That is an amazing image. That you can get that from a DSLR compared to my pathetic efforts at the same target with £2500 of kit in light polluted suburbia makes me feel both good and bad at the same time!
  11. really nice images, especially given the bortle & moon phases. Dual harvesting is definitely the way to go and I'm investigating the same myself.
  12. Really nice image(s) I'd take either or both of them & mount them on my wall with pride. TBH I seem to hit diminishing returns after 4-5 hrs anyway as the spread of quality of subs (according to DSS anyway) just widen downwards the more I take so I end up stacking the same old 60% from that flukey clear night anyway! I'd love to get those red coals I've seen in others as well as your excellet image - I assume they're from the Ha input? I use Star Tools and if I use Ha as a Lum layer it just borks all my colours up!
  13. Wow that is a striking image, really nicely processed too. I love the resolution you've captured on it all from the big 250, I can only dream of such aperture!
  14. Notty

    M31

    When weighing up the various compromises needed to choose my forever scope (TS Optics Photoline 130) I'm sure I remember all the FOV calculators showing M31 much much closer in than this, so I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount I got in the frame. Managed 4 nights on this over last 10 days, but I've also learned a lesson. Nights 1&2, I took the orientation as it came, which was about 30degs more vertical thus losing me more of both ends of the galaxy. From night 3 I rotated the FOV to get the framing seen here (which still could do with another 10-15deg), but when I stacked the two rotations the artefacts and difference in background was uncalibratable(?) so I ended up with only 2 nights data, last night and night before. The difference in the seeing was so huge between the two nights that most of night 3's subs scored so low I ignored them. So this image is mostly from last night. Compared to previous attempts at this from years ago I'm really pleased with what it's captured near the core as per the closeup. TS Optics 130 f/7 ASI1600+EFW EQ6R pro ASIair Pro 90x1m L, 60x1m RGB, flats & darks. Processed in Startools
  15. Wow. That is beautiful. Was my first NB attempt and I was very disappointed. What ratio/how much SHO data went into it please? I struggled to harvest much S&O when I tried.
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