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AstroMuni

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  1. Looking much better. Previously I could barely see your signature 🙂
  2. It does appear a bit dark on my Mac but thats easily rectified. Love the detail and faint colours.
  3. Wow, I love this version. I would have preferred if stars did not have halos around them but that doesnt lessen its beauty. Thanks for sharing @carastro
  4. Thats a great image and you can even make out NGC206 in it. You should be proud of what you have achieved 👍
  5. Lovely image. As you say, with the right star tools you could probably enhance it more. I would love to see the version without the star reduction - I know the recent trend seems to be all about star reduction but I somehow feel the beauty lies in the veritable treasure trove of starfields.
  6. I think this is now talking more about aesthetics & subjective matters rather than what could be applied to a 'rule', is it not? I like your image as it showcases the sheer number of stars & nebulosity.
  7. The main thing that I have done wrong is possibly choosing to pick up this hobby in a country plagued by clouds all the time. And now with Global warming its getting worse 😞 So wrong time, wrong place.
  8. Hi all, here is my attempt at this faint group of galaxies most of which are around 300mly away. Around 100 x 120s subs with the ASI533MC pro mounted on SW130PDS / HEQ5 Pro. All equipment managed with Kstars/Ekos and processing done on Siril. Needs more data to reduce the noise & bring out the fainter details and the IFN around NGC7331 but this is a start that I am happy with. Thanks for looking and comments/ suggestions are welcome.
  9. I took the liberty of applying the following to your jpeg image using Siril - Increased saturation - applied contrast limited adaptive histogram enhancement (CLAHE) - Noise reduction - changed black point
  10. Nebulae such as Heart are quite faint, so suggest practicing with brigher objects first - atm you could try Ring, Dumbell nebulae to name a few prominent ones that are in our skies. It will give you the confidence and help configure settings for such objects
  11. 3 things droolworthy in that picture - planewave equipment, rollback obsy and the lovely skies. We could get the first two here but definitely not the last 🙂
  12. Lovely shot. It also tells me that I am going to need a lot more data & skills to get anywhere near your image quality 🙂
  13. Thats a great image. I didnt think the HEQ5 Pro could handle the 200PDS + the rest of kit. Its good to know that it can. How are you finding its ability to manage this load?
  14. Thats a great shot of M31. Love it. EDIT: realised that your equipment list has grown now, so my previous comments were out of date 🙂
  15. That answers my question 🙂 The .info docs are outputs of dss. Its not needed as input by DSS when you attempt to stack again. Hope this helps
  16. Let me give you a third option 🙂 Use the GUI interface of Sirilic. It does all the magic of creating the script and running thro Siril. https://siril.org/docs/sirilic/
  17. Hi Albir, it would help if you posted details of the software that you use, your kit and how its configured and the particular situation(s) in which this happens. 🙂
  18. You could use browser/VNC on ipad or phone 😉 I agree its not as user friendly as custom UI of ASIAir
  19. Here is an alternate solution which I use. I run teamviewer on the laptop and use my mobile to connect to it. This way I can stand next to the scope and twiddle focus while watching display on laptop. EDIT: I also used a long FTDI cable to connect the mount to the laptop. So had 2 long cables running from inside the house to scope. Consider learning software such as NINA or Cartes du Ciel etc. as these will help you control mount, camera platesolve etc. Once you do platesolving then n-star alignment will be a thing of the past 🙂 And tip on imaging M42. Try using smaller exposures upto 30s to prevent over saturating the central part of the nebula.
  20. In that case, I would suggest that you use Starsense to go the nearest star that is named in Google sky/NASA and then manually move the scope until the 'named star' is in FOV.
  21. You could post your unprocessed FITS file here (just after stacking) and others can show you what they can get out of it. Thats what I tend to do when in doubt if there is more in my image.
  22. A great shot. Welcome to the dark side 🙂 What software did you use to process the images?
  23. Thats sad. Can you hear the motor working when you command it to move?
  24. If you can post the details of the star here, one of us could take a screenshot of the skymap and send to you.
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