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Google "dart mission" and see what happens to your screen 😉

I usually do Lunar and Planetary, but could not resist a go with this. Photoshop levels and curves, and at every step look at your levels as Ollypenrice said above, repeat several times, and up the saturation. Applied the HLVG filter to reduce the green. I did also do a reduce stars action with Astronomy Tools action set.

Regitax wavelets and RGB balance, PS image reduced by 10%, saturation increased and adjusted to be warmer.

Looking good! You get some great images with that scope. Thanks for sharing the stacks, much appreciated.

Can you go to Utilities in the menu, see if the Real Time Clock is off or on? Should be on. Not that that explains why it's not asking you to confirm the time and date first. I use Sharp Cap Pro for PA, no more bending down looking through the polar scope.

This is very interesting, I will give it a try as well, I have of course seen it in AS! and the dithering, but had never seen anybody mention using the sharpening. The sharpening in PS often causes mottling to me.

I started with the 50% of 3000 got the wavelets that looked best with that, and then applied those to the others with less frames. Not from the lowest resolution stack up, but other way round. I suspect I'm missing, not understanding your point here somehow.

If the same as my Explorer 150p, It's the same thread and nearly the same length as the screw on my SV Bony guide scope/finder rings. It's also the same thread as the screws/bolts you get on the end of some sky-watcher dovetail bars.

All were identical default wavelets. Default wavelets Layer 6@100 5@70 4@50 3@30 2@3.0 1 off/unchecked. On the last one, the 50% of 3000, I posted that one without and then with the Image Analyser AI sharpening. They all look slightly blue to me, but I did not want to process them in any way other than the RGB and wavelets.

@symmetal Thanks for the excellent data! 1. 10% stack of 600 2. 40% stack of 2400 3. 50% stack of 3000 4. 50% stack of 3000 slightly (12%) AI sharpened/denoised. 5. 50% stack of 3000 slightly (12%) AI sharpened/denoised, and warmer colour balance. All Registax RGB Balance and Wavelets. Brightness up 10 in PS.

A bit less motley 😉

One more. Registax, PS , IA.

Can't see how dinky it is as nothing to scale it in the picture.

Heavy on the Gaussian wavelets in Registax, and RGB balance. Slight levels in PS. 50% Sharpen/Denoise in Image Analyser.

Thanks Kon, I'll give it a go tomorrow. I still can't get to it at reasonable hour with my restricted easterly view ( My house in the way 🤦‍♂️)

The second one is better to me. First has too much contrast, saturation. The AI Denoise/Sharpen in Image Analyzer is less harsh. What does the original stacked tiff look like.

Try Astrosurface / White Balance

Just to be clear, the Image Analyser is free. https://meesoft.com/Analyzer/

Thanks Mandy, I tried this in Topaz Gigapixel, De-Noise and Reduce Blur, but it was too much. So this is with Image Analyser ( http://meesoft.com/ ) , which also has an AI denoise and sharpen, and is £72 cheaper! 😁

Same image denoised/sharpened

It was boiling away like a hot dessert road! My fault, should have got on with it earlier. Thanks!

2022-09-17T12:02:01.024Z Moon at noon today, past it's best altitude, and bright daylight. Explorer 150p, AVX. Asi 224mc, Zwo 850nm IR Pass filter. Best 30% of 2000 frames Stacked in Autostakkert, 3 frame mosaic stacked in Microsoft ICE, Registax wavelets, PS to finish. Greyscaled as IR. Seeing, very turbulent. Thanks for looking! Updated Image further down thread. Tech stuff: [ZWO ASI224MC] Auto Exp Max Exp = 30ms Auto Exp Max Gain = 300 Auto Exp Target Brightness = 100 Bin = 1 Brightness = 1 Capture Area Size = 1304 * 976 Capture Limit = 2000frames Colour Format = RAW8 Debayer Preview = ON Debayer Type = RGGB EndCapture = 2022-09-17T12:02:32.367Z Exposure = 2.335ms Flip = None FrameCount = 2000 Gain = 252 Hardware Bin = OFF High Speed Mode = OFF Mono Bin = OFF Output Format = *.AVI Raw Format = ON StartCapture = 2022-09-17T12:02:01.024Z StartX = 0 StartY = 0 Temperature = 27.8 C TimeZone = +1 Timestamp Frames = OFF USB Limit = 100 USB Port = 3.0 White Balance (B) = 46 White Balance (R) = 47

They brush up nicely! Something odd with the Jupiter, I can't get it to go in Registax it just turned blue, so left it at PS and just did an auto colour, and reduce image size from 960 pixels to 760. Saturn, in Registax, only did a Balance RGB, and in PS reduce image size slightly.

@Mandy D Great story thanks for sharing! There was a thread recently showing a telescope ad that actually had the finder fitted the wrong way, and they were looking through it, with the main OTA pointed downward 🤦‍♂️

The actual one? Is there a story here you might like to share? How you got it maybe? 🤥