Laurieast

https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-spiral-light-new-zealand-sky-spacex-rocket-1717342

Neither could I from there, I just got it from here: https://fitsliberator.bitpointer.co/# Installs itself.

I was just about to, and you beat me to it! 😁 I'll add, Lazy Astronomy, was watching this last night on plate solving, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGUbeK9Cuo&t=1000s and I did not have nightmares.

Just prefer the appearance when using levels curves etc, easier to see what effect your having? Less cluttered view I would say.

I always found I could not get as good an initial first stretch in PS as everybody else, then I got Affinity, plus the (this sounds like an advert, but not!) JR Astrophotography macro plugins for Affinity, which gives me six stretch options that just run, and you can either like or not and try a different one, so you can be done with that in a couple of minutes! I then export the image from there, and refine it in PS, using mostly levels and curves, saturation and hue. Starnet++2 to get a starless image, is great, as is GraXpert.

Is this going in the right direction/what you expected? Colour preserving tone stretch in Affinity. Separately adjusted the R,G,B, levels in Affinity. Some loss of nebula in GraXpert, but not bad? Another go at the gradient.

The Zwo is 850, would it make any noticeable difference?

Thanks @neil phillips , I'm trying not to burn out the bright highlights, even at the expense of maybe not going as contrasty as I would like. The left side of Plato is the best part I think, but did not manage to get as much detail in the Alpine Valley as I wanted, the very thin inner crevice. But it was low and turbulent, so that's my excuse 😉 Might need a bigger scope

I tried to stack some in Autostakkert that had been in very bad seeing, and it seemed it could not decide what to do with them, and the output looked like it had been near a black hole! all twisted.

Take the barrel off first

Very nice! I got as far as the 10th and then gave up, with the altitude getting so low.

Can you photo the view of the screw inside the barrel, or any part of the threads?

That has to be the best S@N I have ever seen since they started it. This sums it up exactly, it all flowed so easily. What a great man.

Your image above, not the autosave, in Affinity Photo, applying a logarithmic tone stretch, (Macro plugin by JR Astrophotography) , levels and curves and GradientXterminator in PS.

Nicely done, I like the Aristarchus and Gassendi. What was the seeing like? I looked at it and decided it was too low, and there were clouds coming in, although I want to get Aristarchus.

Very nice! You must have been up very early?

Thanks! It was very windy! 🌬️

5 image stitch in ICE Prime focus Explorer 150p Asi 224mc + IR Pass.

Mare Humorum region with Gassendi Explorer 150p Asi 224mc + IR Pass + 3x Barlow

Copernicus Explorer 150p Asi 224mc + IR Pass + 3x Barlow

Clavius & Tycho Explorer 150p Asi 224mc + IR Pass + 3x Barlow

Plato & Alpine Valley Explorer 150p Asi 224mc + IR Pass + 3x Barlow

Had been imaging the Moon and after thought just try it and see, the sky was not even dark 23:20 last night 10th June. But it was there in the guide scope! (but messed up imaging it in that 😞 ) , and started the Asi 224mc on it, first time doing deep sky with it. DSS or me seems to have lost al the colour. Explorer 150p on AVX unguided Asi 224mc 59x 1 sec

Astrobackyard (Trevor Jones), Astroforum (Wido), Ed Ting, Astro la Vista, Dylon, the VERY noisy Ausi (turn the music down mate!), A.V.Astronomy, Astrobiscuit, Helina's Astrophotography, Sky At Night monthly.

This is great, thanks for posting it. Hopefully @honest will see it here.