post capture software, for DSO for best results

[oldpink]

Ok so I have dipped my toe in the AP side of this hobby and captured some clusters etc
but once I have the basic image from DSS to stack my captures I have only really Adobe Photoshop CS6  for post production
tonight I tried startools but while initial results were promising it kept hogging my resources on a decent spec PC
it did show a lot of promise on some old data but too slow to be of use

my current setup is EQMod via EQ5 mount

control - EQMod through CdC or Stellarium to track targets
capture - BYEOS pro version
fine tuning - EQMod X box controller, calibrating through software to tune tracking and fine tuning tracking
Astro tortilla, not quite working, can't get it to solve plates as of yet *

DSS to stack the captures

PIPP, AS!2 Registax for planetary work

*astro tortilla see's the image from the camera but never resolves the plate but Astrobins does

what is the best software to go after to plug the gap in what I have already

[Merlin66]

CS6 seems to be favoured by many experienced AP amateurs. (I can't afford it, and still use AA5 for acquisition and processing)

Why do you think there are limitations using CS6??

[Steve Ward]

Photoshop seems to be the most common tool to me , try Doug German's tutorials to get you started ... https://www.youtube.com/user/namregd/videos

[wxsatuser]

I use Imagesplus, the processing part is $205, around £120, plus add VAT etc when it arrives.

IP will process data right to the finished image, seems to combine images as good if not slightly better than DSS.

Must admit I still don't know how all of it works, yet.

Have just bought into PS CC as well, now have all I need.......anyway I hope so.

[oldpink]

CS6 is good for finishing off the image
but I'm looking for something more Astro orientated to do most of the stretching and gradient removal etc
I'll have a look at Imageplus

[julianr]

I use pixinsight and there is a free full spec 45 day trial period. Give it a try it is resource hungry for various tools.

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[Merlin66]

Try AstroArt.....it should tick all the boxes.....