Luke Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It was good to get back to some lunar processing, the first one up was Letronne... All images were captured in mono and I added false colour From the seventh image (Plato) down, I started using Lucy Richardson deconvolution for sharpening, instead of Smart Sharpen, to get some experience using the settings, the seeing was not that brill for this session. Was good to get the SCT out at last, even if the 2x barlow stayed in the case!Schiller, fourth down, came out quite misty. I wonder if I took that capture when my SCT dewed/frosted up? I had turned the heat strip down a bit just in case it was contributing to the unstable image. I blame Jarrod for the white inverted Copernicus, as I really liked his inverted version ---3rd November, 2014Celestron Edge 8", Grasshopper 3 camera (ICX687), red filter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Wonderful. Each of them is special in its own way.Thanks for a beautiful gallery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooot Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Great shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Lip Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 They look fantastic Luke, every one is great. Looks like the Lucy Richardson really has the edge when it comes to sharpening.Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CATLUC Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 HelloVery nice images good job.Clear sky.Luc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 some very nice detail in that collection of images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Thanks, Ruud, Craig, Will, Luc and Pete I hope it won't be so long until the next time I can get the SCT out again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazar Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Nicely done Luke. Really like the Vallis Alpes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargazer33 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Very nice images Luke. Love that inverted Copernicus too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carastro Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Lovely collection of images Luke.Carole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB80 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 All of them excellent Luke!As I mentioned elsewhere I like your take on Copernicus, it has a real ivory look to it.Out of curiosity how harsh were you with the LR sharpening, di you need to use it as much as you would for Ha solar stuff or did you scale the settings back a bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted November 13, 2014 Author Share Posted November 13, 2014 Thanks, Steve, Bryan, Carole and Jarrod!Jarrod, I think I will tinker some more when I do my next solar shots and see if anything I have been trying with lunar works with my solar efforts (well, I have to finish off my first h-alpha animation before that, using Smart Sharpen for speed as I've spent too long on it already!).I am still learning but here's what I used most recently with Astra Image 4, I think. If anyone has any tips/pointers, that would be great!So I used fewer iterations with lunar, but switched to the Sharpening version and used quite a high strength? The Cauchy method seemed to really make the lunar features "pop".SOLARMenu pick: "Process / Deconvolution / Deconvolution for Deblurring"Decon Method: Lucy RichardsonBlur Kernel: GaussianIterations: 250Blur Kernel Size: 1.34Then a second dose, same settings but with Blur Kernel Size of about 0.62LUNARMenu pick: "Process / Deconvolution / Deconvolution for Sharpening"Decon Method: Lucy RichardsonBlur Kernel: GaussianIterations: 45Blur Kernel Size: 1.5Decon Strength: 3.41Then I did a 0.7x resize in Photoshop (maybe seeing or my focus was not good enough? Sometimes I also downsize solar to about 0.7x, sometimes I keep it as 1.0x...)Then a second dose of decon:Menu pick: "Process / Deconvolution / Deconvolution for Sharpening"Decon Method: Lucy RichardsonBlur Kernel: CauchyIterations: 10Blur Kernel Size: 0.44Decon Strength: 1.08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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