Ola Skarpen Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Imaging telescope or lens:TS Optics Photoline 130 f/6.62 Imaging camera:Moravian G3-16200 Mount:10 Micron GM2000 HPS II UP Guiding telescope or lens:TS Optics Photoline 130 f/6.62 Guiding camera:Moravian G3-16200 Focal reducer:APM Riccardi 0.75x Software:Nikon CaptureNX2, PixInsight Resolution: 1700x1411 Dates: Nov. 23, 2017 Frames: Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 25x300" Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 25x300" Astrodon Ha 3nm 50mm: 120x600" Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-series Gen 2: 25x300" Locations: SkyEyE Observatory, Extremadura, Spain Remote hosting at e-EyE in Extremadura, Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimvb Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Excellent image, almost starless. What's your secret to get such small stars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ola Skarpen Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 7 minutes ago, wimvb said: Excellent image, almost starless. What's your secret to get such small stars? Thank you. I work mostly with mask, and pixinsight morphological transformation. Start carefully and repeat the procedure repeatedly Ola S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony210 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 As above - very impressed by the star control- a difficult area for stars as I have imaged it with an 8 ich RCT - Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceph Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Thats an image you could sit back and just let the imagination flow for hours, i like it a lot. Pixinsight Morp.. For me when working with MT. in Pixinsight it always leaves trails of the removed stars even at "size 3", so I can only reduce the stars max in 1 step. I guess I must be doing it all wrong when I see this pic. How do you do proceed when using MT in Pix, and do you use another software to smooth out the leftovers of the stars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansmith Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 That's a great image, so smooth. Your noise reduction skills are excellent, wish I could get my images to look that smooth. Cheers, Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ola Skarpen Posted June 30, 2018 Author Share Posted June 30, 2018 12 hours ago, Ceph said: Thats an image you could sit back and just let the imagination flow for hours, i like it a lot. Pixinsight Morp.. For me when working with MT. in Pixinsight it always leaves trails of the removed stars even at "size 3", so I can only reduce the stars max in 1 step. I guess I must be doing it all wrong when I see this pic. How do you do proceed when using MT in Pix, and do you use another software to smooth out the leftovers of the stars? Hi, and thanks for the fine feedback. I'm editing all my images visually, and there are a lot of back and forth with different software. I used MT several times in the process, but I make new mask as the stars grow smaller and smaller. I use some PS, and Capture nx2 and most PI to software. I often sit for many hours, and when the result is finished, I do not always remember the order in the process. But I'm saving many versions all the time In this picture, I mean and have made a starless version of HA, which I'm imported as a Lum file also in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceph Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Ok. Thx Ola, tricky it is. I had not tested new mask on every MT done, I have tested several masks though when using MT, but not after each shrinking. Did some tests today actually and that image didn't like star shrink at all I guess it is as usuall, if you fail, try try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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