DaveS

Not sure it's directly Artemis, but... The Mods may decide it belongs elsewhere.

Windows Remote Desktop only works if the remote PC is running Pro. I use RDP because it comes with Windows Pro, and I've heard enough about Teamviewer playing silly whatsits with accounts to put me off.

I've never used BackyardEOS. When I started out imaging I used APT, but after moving from a DSLR to mono CCD I bought AstroArt 5 for my processing and used its camera control for capture. When I bought my first ASA mount I needed Maxim DL but eventually managed to get the ASA Sequence software working at use that. NINA has a very good reputation but I've not had to use it yet. Maybe if I build a mobile rig with a mount that can be guided in both axes (Currently I use a SA) then I will investigate it further. As all my remote PCs are Win10 or 11 I have no interest in Kstars EKOS etc.

Probably the best way is not to lead the cables indoors at all but have a local PC on the imaging rig and connect from indoors with RDP.

That looks a much better effort! My reason for splitting the channels was due to the very heavy green cast that I saw when I opened the TIFF, so wanted to give AstroArt the individual channels for rebalancing. I could, perhaps, have done the same with the White balance adjustment function.

Yes, Win 10

I was searching for a target that would fit in the FoV of my ODK rig and hold up under moonlight. After a mosey round in Stellarium I came up with NGC 457, the Owl (Or Dragonfly) cluster. I took 12 subs each of 300 sec Red and Green, and 525 sec Blue (First order G2v calibration) Only 11 of the R and B made it through AstroArt's QC, but all 12 Green did. After stacking I cropped off the dither edges and applied a Gradient Reduction followed by star Erosion to shrink some of the bigger stars. Trichromy was followed by a DDP and Richardson-Lucy deconvolution with a slight Histogram Stretch to take the background down a touch. Saved as a JPEG Phew!

I've installed Stellarium 1.22.3 on my 64 bit office computer, and all my telescope and camera settings are as they were. I think I had to tell it my location, but found it in the list where I had added it to in the previous version.

Gosh, looks like I'm the first to post! The Owl Cluster. 12 subs in G2v calibration with the ODK rig in my sig. Started immediately after Astro Dark so quite a bit of moonlight. Each stack cropped to remove dither edges, given a gradient reduction and star erosion. After RGB combination a DDP was applied with slight saturation boost, then a Richardson-Lucy deconvolution. Finally a slight histogram stretch to push the background down before saving as a JPEG

I was up this morning just as it was getting light. Mars was well placed between Betelgeuse and Aldebaran, and was very obviously the brightest and reddest of the three.

I had a play in AstroArt 8 Imported the TIFF, then cropped quite heavily to remove some dodgy edges then split into RGB. Recombined in Trichromy so that colour balance could be restored. Applied DDP to the combined RGB with a slight saturation boost and high pass filter followed by Richardson-Lucy deconvolution. A Hue and Saturation followed then a simple Linear and Vignetting gradient removal Saved as a JPEG Background may still be a touch high, and there's still a bit of uneven background.

I'm with Adam on this. I had the trial version but it just , so for what passes for my sanity I went back to using AstroArt which just keeps getting more powerful, and is now at V8 sp2.

He's still not happy

"That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange eons even death may die"

Stellarium shows it as the Dragonfly, but also lists it as the Owl and E.T. cluster.

I hope to be imaging this tomorrow night if it holds clear, so I'll put up the image as evidence.

Yep, much better. I too saw a sepia tone in the first on my calibrated monitor.

Owl

From my Bortle 3 locatition Mars is very distinctly red, and the ancient Greeks and Romans would have had Bortle 1-2 skies so much more obvious. This is heading dangerously close to woo-woo,

Too many artsy types in the meeja, probably gave up science before GCSE. Check out the broadcast channels, chock full of worthless Drama, Stupid people being stupid while screaming threats at each other and committing GBH. Or is that just "Eastenders"?

When I've done HST palette I too go for straight SHO with no channel mixing to muddy the waters, though I may adjust the relative levels of each channel.

Go big or go home. I wanna TOA 150 .

Yep, even naked eye Jupiter is dazzlingly bright. I was out a couple of nights back and found it almost painful to look at, but I'm pretty dark. M33 is naked eye when well placed.

That is a fabulous image Peter.

But the biggest question is: Will it be delivered by Postman Pat?