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Two different views of the North America Nebula
Starfisher replied to Graham Darke's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
feel free to share the data you got on both versions with the forum. i am not experienced neither. but i am sure some others here can. -
3 data stacks to play with during lockdown
Starfisher replied to Allinthehead's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
This should be done much more , sharing data. hereby my version of your Orion done a bit like i am currently used to do playing a lot with masks and curvetransformation,... in pixinsight and than saving it as a TIFF , opening Darktable and looking what it gives if i pull the highlightslider,... -
Two different views of the North America Nebula
Starfisher replied to Graham Darke's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
i prefer the second version, star reduction is certainly worth doing in 'crowded' areas like these. nice job! -
also an advantage of a small scope in my opinion is that the image doesn't get too overwhelming with craters. Ilove your image, great job!
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First Lunar shot in my astronomy journey
Starfisher replied to Rob Meades's topic in Imaging - Lunar
Nice done ! and now the misery will start. you will want to do it better, faster and let the money roll . but from my point of view it's worth all the things you'll have to tackle -
despite the little hick-ups you had a very nice result. recently i learned remote controlling my scope , still not dare to leave it all alone a night long . now i am trying to save up for an obsie to keep all settled . sooner or later i'll get the habbit to go sleep and let the marvel technique do his thing at night
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First play with the Optolong L-Extreme Filter
Starfisher replied to Snoani's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
nice result. you got some good details in it. for your stars if you are using a reducer : experiment with a bit more spacing or less and look upon the result. had the same with mine and after some fidling with a mm extra, less,.. i came to nice stars acros the image (must still post it) Dslr's have indeed a hard time these days with night of 20+ °C . that is why i am happy i bought a cooled CMOS -
indeed way better. good job!
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look nice. looks like a lot of 130PDS owners have a Evostar72ED as well. i am guilty on it as well. the pds aint bad but man do i love that Evostar72!
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nicely done . personally i wouldn't have done a HDRtransform thingy on the image. but that is personal flavor ofcourse. Keep up the good work
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i saw it pass on Astrobin , amazingly done!
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Can anyone help with processing this image?
Starfisher replied to Skyballer's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
my humble version with some hings done in PixInsight : color calibration and background thingy , DBE (division), DBE(substraction) , rangemask , curvetransformation ,GAMe mask , curvetransformation , L-extract , HDRtransformation, starmakst , morphylogical tranformation, historgramtransformation , extract L, R,G,B and LRGB-combination . think that is is more or less oh yes and SCNR did you make raw? or only jpeg? did you used any calibration? -
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set-up : Skywatcher EQM35Pro , Skywatcher Evostar ED72 with TS fieldflattner , Raspberry Pi4 with EKOS/Kstars ( no Starmate or astroberry) , Idas Hutech LPS2 filter it is all going i the right directions. Hold the wood but all issues ( just spacing Fieldflattner ) seem to be solved average RMS of guiding is improved to 1.15". Remote controll with the PI works like a breeze. whenever i feel the need to stay inside or want to go sleep, i can trust my gear now to do what must be done.
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true, the mottling is a result of going maybe a bit to aggressive in my starmask i used for star reduction. but there will be more in the future to keep n mind with hopefully some better results. Also, i will need more subs to take ofcourse. But i am planning to get the whole Veil Nebula in one picture , but first see how i do on ohter subjects too. no rush
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might be indeed a good thing to do some more star reduction , i only applied it once because i never did it in PI. might look up for it first at some tutorials to be sure or even make just for fun a starless one too . thanks for the input
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This image is the result of stopping to work with my laptop , who is near his end after 10 years it seems and the introduction for me to the marvel called Raspberry Pi . it was a nice experiment which learned me to use remote controlling my telescope, cameras,... . it was also a baptising for me to learning to work with SSH , VNC,.... all things i never knew till it came up to me, to buy a Raspberry Pi and learning Linux. And i am very pleased how all came out. now my mount keeps tracking. i was also happy with the guiding, online platesolving,... things which gave me some headaches with my laptop. all processing is done in PI and the TIFF-JPEG is done by Darktable. Pixinsight is a lovely program to use ones you learn to make and use masks , dare to split up your rgb and working on them sepratly. Hope you like it , constructive critism is always welcome ofcourse
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M13 : Touptek ATR3-1600KPA first light and much more
Starfisher replied to Starfisher's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
and now my remake and very last version. My evostar 72ED arrived and now i must wait clear sky to see how it will preform on M13 -
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M13 : Touptek ATR3-1600KPA first light and much more
Starfisher replied to Starfisher's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
was thinking the same and it is indeed that i will have to work on the correct spacing. and below is my answer to the gradient thingy -
M13 : Touptek ATR3-1600KPA first light and much more
Starfisher posted a topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
Hello all, yes another M13 shot i did. i discovred i start to have the habbit to photograph this object each time it is up and i have a new piece of equipement to test. This time the new equipement was Touptek ATR3-1600-KPA (OSC Cmos ,much alike Zwo ASI1600-Pro color ) and also a new guidecam : Touptek 2000KMB mono guider. I am actuall quite amazed what came out. realizing this is the second night working with Kstars,... and the cams ofcourse ( once i managed manual focus with guider and main-camera , i went sleeping ). my stars are in all four corners 'quite long' so i think i might have to adapt my Baader MPPC Mk3 coma corrector (also the first time used) a bit. Gain : 0 T° : 0°C exposures: 1*20s , 1*60 , 1*70 and 26*75s. total : 35 mins 15 darks are made and 30 bias. telescope : Skywatcher 130PDS mount : Skywatcher EQM35Pro -
some more images of my come-back-to-astrophotography sessions on NGC 4565 it is no vignetting. just trying some new ways to present my images all are taken on an EQM35PRO mount , and a Fujifilm xt-2 mirrorless camera. i am considering an CC for my "little gem" : i am leaning to the Baader MPPC III . or would the Skywatcher itself be a good one? i will also look in the future for a CMOS.. any advice is welcome
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Guiding issues (EQ3 Pro mount): a detailed cry for help
Starfisher replied to jusasi's topic in Imaging - Discussion
i losen just a tick up my bolt of the Dec axis inside the mount just a tick. and moved the mount head slow left and right till i felt no more 'counterpressure' when going south. i calibrated my guiding and.... no more messages that my south movement was insufficient