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Hi All So after all the help I got with the Iris Nebula. I thought I would revisit my Tulip Nebula. Also the EZ processing scripts are magic. 85 x 2 min Subs. over 2 or 3 nights, separated by a month, flipping weather Thanks for looking Mike

Thank you All

So here is my rework with a few hints and tips from City9Town0. But also from all o f your comments. Much thanks maybe I was being to gentle with my colour stretching. hopefully this is better

Just what I was thinking Gorann. Here you all go. That's beautiful Peter NGC7023_IrisNebula_60x2m_unstretched.fit

Hi All yes the ZWO ASI533MC Pro is a OSC, the only filter is the Optilon L-Pro. this comes out very green so I then linear fit the RGB to Red as the lowest Median, from a video I was watching to work it. Hi John I tried to increase the saturation but it started to come out more pink/purple that anything else and I didnt like it so didnt apply it. couldnt get any colour out of the clouds, maybe need more Subs Hi Gorann process was Blinked then calibrated then cosmetic correction then Debayered. then mesured and aligned before stacking/integration Is that wrong somewhere

Hi Long time since Ive posted but thought I'd see what you guys think of this. SW ED80DS with ASI533Pro, 60 2 minute subs, dark, flat, bias done. Then processed with Pixinsight trial to see if I like it. talk about learning curve... I wanted the dark a bit darker but the detail starts to go too. Thanks for looking Myk

Hi Chris Thanks for the vote of confidence on the L-Pro. Its totally well placed. Think I was jumping the gun a bit. The images I was looking at were the ones showing as preview in APT. As I took them. Once I have them De-bayered in a image processing app they look fine. Must be the way APT changes them on the fly maybe that adds too much blue. Just taken some flats and they were cyan on the preview and off white in the other app. Cheers and I hope this is helpful to anyone else that thinks this is sort of thing is something wrong Clear skys all Mike

Hi All So really excited to get my hands on a good!! OSC. But I seem to have a blue green cast to the images. havent had chance to remove the L-pro filter so dont know if its this or the camera. Anyone got experience with the filter or the camera. I havent read anything about this with the camera. Cheers for looking and clear skys Mike

Hi I've seen on cloudynights.com about a program called MoonDance clear sky detection. link to the original thread - https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/300432-clear-sky-detection/?p=4039768 Unfortunately it was stored on a Yahoo forum which is not closed. Does anyone know where there is a copy of it or if they moved to a different server like GitHub or something. I realise this is a long shot as we are talking 2010 for the original post but its worth a try. Cheers All Mike

thanks for the assist guys. I did wounder if it was the cables however for now I think Im sorted. I uninstalled and reinstalled the atik software and drivers and it all worked first time. maybe something to do with installing MS teams and citrix for work. Thank you again for replying, I am currently on an hour and a half of exposures. Clear sky's to you all. Although I think we're all stuffed in the UK after tomorrow

Hi Been out of this for a while due to life, and on setting up my PC I find the drivers are old for these cameras. Fine i spoke to Atik and they pointed me right. So i have/had them set up and working. But every now and then I get 'camera' (not available).? They show in device manager and if they are not attached then the Atik connection app just says none. Does anyone know why or what I can do as this stopped the clear sky last night, slightly frustrated to say the least. I have them into 2 USB2 ports, tried in a hub but their not happy with that at all. Running windows 7 as they really dont like 10. any ideas or help apreciated Mike