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Captured on the morning of 21st with my CPC at just under 5000mm FL. Captured using FireCapture with processing in AS3!, ImPPG and PS. Just one more set from the 26th to process so we'll see what that produces though they were of a less interesting AR.

Captured on 20th April with the usual FireCapture, AS3!, ImPPG and PS Now to make a start on the high res WL

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciated.

Have finally managed to start processing the various captures I managed to get of the recent ARs over the last week. I started processing my low res stuff first as weather conditions were never perfect so I'm not holding out much hope for the high res stuff, but you never know. Captured on the 21st with my 9.25 using Firecapture and processed in AS3!, ImPPG and PS. I think I'll have a look at the Ha next as that isn't too impacted by seeing compared to WL.

Looking good. Now layer the old image onto the new image and erase the umbra region to reveal the new detail and you have a winner. The other approach would be to pin the histo curve at the lower end when making adjustments to preserve the dark details in the umbra. Hope that helps.

Some nice detail there. I do like a mono WL.

Sure sign of wall to wall clouds for ages then!!!!!

Some nice detail there, though I think you may have possibly gone a touch too far on the black point and potentially lost detail in the umbra. Nice work though.

Nice series there Neil. Good to see your progress with Solar. Will be interesting to see what the 3.8ND gives

Nice first light with your new set up, though I think you are still some way off of it's full potential.

ImPPG is your friend when it comes to animations.

Nice. How many of that lot are you stacking for the final image?

Any rotation during a video capture will not matter as each frame will be a fraction of a second (so no rotation) and the stacking process of the chosen files from the video will take care of any rotation during the video.

I can dither with PHD2 using Artemis (Atik capture software) so I'm sure various other capture software would also be able to do the same.

Trapezium A to I Thought I would try something a bit different for this one, so had a go at resolving stars A to I in the Trapezium. They are all there but some harder to see than others!!!!!!! Shot on 17th Dec with my CPC925 and ASI120mm and Baader RGB filters. I thought as I was using my planetary setup, I would try planetary capture/ processing techniques so captured an AVI with Firecapture and stacked 40 frames in AS!3 (after a bit of experimentation found that fewer fames and I couldn't pull out the nebula, more frames and I couldn't resolve the fainter stars due to poor seeing). I then combined R, G and B in PS and further processed the combined image.

New updated version just released https://sourceforge.net/projects/starnet/files/v2.0/

How many of those 10,000+ frames would you propose are stacked?

He has been back on the site a number of times since the three of us went to the trouble of posting to try and help him out but I take your point that during the time he was on the site he may not have had enough time to check if there was an answer to his own last post. I am sorry that my disappointment was inappropriate and will be more considered in my future replies.

What is the point of asking a question and then not bothering to look at the answers or worst still seeing the answer and not acknowledging the three people who offered something up?

Nice and an interesting colour, obviously from the continuum and the colour cam. Almost as good as the one you posted two minutes later!!!!

This? https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/astro-essentials-low-profile-125-nosepiece-to-fit-c-mount.html

Moon light does not affect seeing, turbulence in the atmosphere is what affects seeing. I think you have your terminology a bit mixed up.

Can you clarify what you are looking for? Your title says highest resolution, your post says best captures. The highest resolution could be not very good but your best capture will most likely be low resolution so which are you looking for? Thanks.

When you have the new images without the moon just do a quick test. A stack with the originals and a stack without. You can then decide for yourself. It's not as if you will waste any time as you already have the shots that will potentially be discarded.

Thanks for the kind comments guys. Much appreciated. Astroscot2, this was with my CPC9.25 as per my signature and I also used a 2xbarlow.