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  1. That’s a really useful comment Stuart I appreciate you taking the time to comment I may reprocess this one and tone the blues down a bit to see what I get Thanks again Bryan 😊
  2. Thank you for the input I understand, it really does come down to personal taste 😊
  3. I have a question regarding this image I have always been a fan of understated quality images, ones that don’t make your eyes hurt with saturation and contrast, however, the internet seems to prefer these? I have been imaging for 20+ years now, I am a slow learner, tend to stick with what I know for a long time before trying something radically different Recently though, I have adopted Nina and automated things like plate solving, autofocus and filter changes party down to the help and information freely available from sites like this and it has been a revelation! So, I just wanted to say thank you to all the helpful stargazers out there that contribute to the community! now I can achieve a dataset of all filters in a session, I can even switch targets whilst I sleep! As a result of this, I have acquired more useable data and I have been delving deeper into the amazing features available in Pixinsight (although I haven’t even scratched the surface) Anyway, I’m completely off topic now, What I really wanted was some advice. Am I going too far with images like this? is it over processed? Too much colour? Should I tone it down and be a bit more subtle? I value your opinions and I don’t want to get cornered into a workflow that is detrimental to the original data Is the purple in there a mistake? This is around 15 hours HSO with a bit of RGB for the small amount of stars I’ve left in Thanks for looking and please don’t hold back if it offends your eyes, let me know Thanks Bryan 😊
  4. That's one of the most eskimo resembling eskimo nebula shots I've seen! Fab job!! Well done! Thanks for sharing Bryan
  5. Lovely job! This isn’t a target I’ve ever attempted and your version makes me want to! can I ask, what brand RC8 are you using? How do you rate it? I have always been tempted to consider an RC scope but they seem to come with certain issues Thanks for sharing Bryan 😊
  6. Thanks for the comment Michael I totally agree I think my laptop screen is loosing brightness, the first version looked black on the background but I soon saw it wasn’t when I posted it and viewed it on my phone screen! I’ll have to take this into account going forward Thanks again for the comment Bryan 😊
  7. Thanks for the comment and the kind words The 10 hours was around 200min per channel The fine detail was stretched out of the image using generalised hyperbolic stretch in many small titrations and the selective colour script (I think that’s its name?) Thanks again, glad you like it Bryan 😊
  8. Thank you 🙏 I appreciate your kind words I’m glad you like it 😊 Bryan
  9. Thank you for the comment I really appreciate your kind words 😊 I’ve been trying to get my head around pix for a couple of years now, slowly chipping away at it, up till now, I used to register and stack in APP which was a massive leap from deep sky stacker but this last 6months or so I have been, like you, watching a lot of tutorials, Adam Block is great but I’ve only used his free content so far, he has appeared on The Astro Imaging Channel a couple of times which I also watch/listen to, Lukomatico, james lamb, another Astro channel, astro biscuit and many others, The YouTube clip below is the main influence in this image this is after I have registered, stacked in wbpp combined an rgb image, created a star mask ( not sue I could repeat that in exactly the same way) gently stretched the rgb, then removed the stars Then followed this, up to the point of replacing the stars I have, in my arsenal, graxpert, blurxterminator, starxterminator, noisexterminator this tutorial helps use them at the right time Thanks for the comment, I hope you find something here useful Bryan 😊
  10. Wow! that’s an amazing first comment! I wasn’t expecting that! You are very kind It has been a long process getting this far with my image and I was worried I had really overdone it! Thanks again Bryan 😊
  11. Edit my laptop screen must be dark Viewing it on my phone it looks a bit washed out A quick tweak, star reduced and sky darkened a tad in curves
  12. Hi Stargazers! well, I've had a lot of fun getting this far with Pixinsight, This is one of the first images I have processed from start to finish in the program Camera Qhy268m Telescope Revelation astro ED100 Tsflat2 flattener Off axis guided with an Atik 314l+ Bortle 5 There is about 10 hours total HSO (5 min subs Mode 1 gain56_offset26) Only 7 min each RGB (30s subs Mode 1 gain 0) It's probably one of the most saturated images I've processed to date but I kinda like it Any suggestions or criticism welcome, There is always more to learn! Thanks for looking Bryan
  13. Stunning job Dave! Lovely processing! Kudos! Thanks for sharing Bryan
  14. After some more research, I’m going to give this a go it looks promising! 😊
  15. Hi folks I have been learning more and more about pixinsight and now I’m able to register, align and stack an image, with the added bonus of star colour correcting with SPCC When I have removed the rgb stars subsequently try to add them to a narrowband starless image I loose the star colour on bright parts of the nebula I’ve used the screen stars pixelmath recommended in starxterminator and I’ve also tried image blend (fantastic newish script!) but I get the same results Would I be better screen blending in photoshop? or do I need to learn new pixelmath methods? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I want to retain the colour of the stars over the bright parts of the nebula rather than just have them white Thanks Bryan
  16. Thanks Martin I appreciate the comment Bryan
  17. Hi Stargazers! I recently imaged Thors Helmet, between the trees and houses and whilst checking this region I realised there was another Nebula I haven’t ever attempted! The seagull nebula doesn’t get above 25° from my location at this time of year so I wasn’t hoping for much but even with the short Integration time of less that 2 hours per channel I’m reasonably happy with the results for my first run anyway here is my image so far Thanks for looking Bryan
  18. Mass production at the lowest cost I guess? if you had one made by hand with the best materials (if that was a thing!) it would probably work better and last a lot longer?
  19. I’ve seen spikes in the cooling power similar to your graph cheers Bryan
  20. Thanks Elp Really appreciate your comment 15-20° must have been a real challenge! I can’t get that low due to houses and trees! Thanks again Bryan
  21. Nice image Rodd I agree, the first one has a slightly more natural look to it but the second one isn’t overcooked and if that was the only one you had posted I wouldn’t have criticised it for being too sharp I also love the muted colour, I’ve noticed over the years Astro photos have become brighter and more saturated to the point where they become more like a painting than a photographic record, that’s just my opinion fwiw Thanks for sharing Bryan
  22. Thanks geeklee I almost decided to quit Astro imaging especially when 6 months of hard earned data vanished with a HDD failure shortly after this disaster. But this hobby has always been a series of hurdles and challenges to overcome for the reward of an image of the ancient universe around us you can share or just stare at again and again in wonder! Thank you for the comment Bryan
  23. Hi Skipper! Glad to see you imaging again and more importantly your health is better! In answer to your question, yes, I find it better than starnet, it is processor hungry so if you have an NVIDIA graphics card it’s worth the effort to try and involve it in the job by adding Cuda and tenserflow etc, there are many vids and instructions online, just make sure you follow each step carefully, it took me a couple of years to finally achieve but reduced my star removal from 15-20 min down to 2 min (old laptop) Great image! Btw keep them coming!! kind Regards Bryan
  24. Thank you for the kind words Adrian Your comment is encouraging and made me smile 😊 🙏 Bryan
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