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You should build templates and use those for your imaging runs then you should have little. if any, issues weather excepting of course. I have templates built for LRGB, SHO and also HaLRGB so depending which target I select in the Framing tab I just send that to the template that I already loaded. The templates already have a target included (hence the RGB etc designation) so I can just "Update" the target and it's ready to go. Minor point is that I save my sequences for each target anyway so just loading a sequence and updating its target is what I actually do in practice. I reset the sequence of course.....

Nice image. Are you using the advanced sequencer? If not then I'd recommend doing so to add tons of flexibility to your sequences, especially if automation is your aim.

I cannot answer your question but if you adjusted the DEC belt and it's now making a horrible noise wouldn't you be better off readjusting that first?

Cheers much appreciated!

I must admit I'd not noticed but now you mention it... Is this one better, certainly seems to have removed the green in a side by side comparison?

I took these images about 10 days ago but had been struggling to get any colour at all. I've just had another play with it using a few extra processes that are new to me including ArcsinhStretch and LocalHistogramEquilization. No BlurXTerminator though 🤣 🤣 This is just the RGB but I have some L and Ha to add to it at some point. It's not as vivid as some I've found on Astrobin but it's an improvement on my first few efforts.....

I like his videos, well the ones where his wife is involved 🤣😍

Yes I learned this early on and now my Park position is South-West too against the prevailing weather so the opening doesn't let heavy rain in....

I prefer the first one, seems to have a bit more definition to me. What were the process steps and how did they differ?

My door is roughly South-ish but that suits me for the direction of access and also lines up with a corner of the square base so gives me a bit more standing room as it were.

I have Antlia SHO and LRGB (mine are 36mm) and seem to work just fine.

There's been quite a bit of work put into the synchronised dithering in NINA so if it was some time ago it could be worth having another look at it.

Don't be sorry Vlaiv, pretty sure most on here look forward to your thoughts on these matters!

I am not sure anyone was looking at using g2v AND linearfit. As far as I was aware it was a question about doing something similar to g2v in PI. Whether the anser is linearfit has generated more discussion though.

Apologies @DaveS if this is going OT. Thanks again Vlaiv, as always.... Hopefully I'm not misunderstanding but are you then saying that if you have three masters, either RGB or SHO then using linearfit to equalise them before combination is not a good thing to do?

Thanks Vlaiv but that's why I added "by the sounds of it" 🙂 It sounded to me like g2v was being used for equalising the channels which is what linearfit does if you look at the numbers. Whether it's the right tool that's needed or whether it does things correctly I wouldn't really know but it did sound like that's what was being asked for 🙂

I can’t recall the reasoning but I seem to think it’s advised to not do any noise reduction before using blurxt

great, I was going to say have a look at the network discovery settings or whatever it's called...

I just looked and I can see all the Mele drive. Let me check on what sharing etc I may have set up on there Edit - ok great if it's all working...

ok I'm back... Have you shared a directory on the mele yet as you should see it in that view you have? You actually may not need to map a drive as such, my mappings are all to Linux machines so ignore me on that one....

You can do it via ip address after you've shared a drive. Hang on while I reboot to windows and I'll see if I can take a screenshot

Just map a network drive to the remote machine in the same way you've already done. If you've done it one way it should be the same the other. I have my machines going to a NAS but I also created a share on the mele and mapped a drive to it too from my laptop.

I have to say that I've not really noticed folk changing the exposures per filter, whether that's broadband or narrowband apart from one exception that is Luminance. Linearfit does exactly what you're doing with G2V by the sound of it. Typically folk choose the lowest background valued frame (usually Sii in narrowband) and use that to apply to Oiii and Ha. For my narrowband stuff I'll expose each filter the same, say 300s, and if I want to will then use linearfit to balance them, using Sii as the reference.

If I understand what you're asking you can use LinearFit in PI to match the mean background between the channels. Then you can use SPCC on the resulting combined image if you wish.

I must admit I thought you would pick up on my poor choice of words but my fundamental point stands.