Cone and Fox Fur

[Rodd]

Until my mount is working again, I must dig deep to find data worth processing. For this one , I used about 16 hours of FSQ RGB data and 4 hours of TOA Ha.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

The top of my wish list? A bigger sensor

Edited October 4, 2023 by Rodd

[ollypenrice]

Nice. This has a moody, dusky look and the blue nebulosity hovers dreamily over the scene.

Olly

[powerlord]

Nice. I see you are getting some weird artifacts on some stars though ? too much blurx ?

[tooth_dr]

Hey Rodd, looking good there!  I'm currently processing the same region, and am curious what your Ha looks like. Can you post that?

 

Cheers

Adam.

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, powerlord said:

Nice. I see you are getting some weird artifacts on some stars though ? too much blurx ?

Partly.  The RGB data was collected at 318 mm and the stars were bloated. It makes for difficult processing.  I figured who would use an electron microscope to peep. I will see if I can fix them. 

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, ollypenrice said:

Nice. This has a moody, dusky look and the blue nebulosity hovers dreamily over the scene.

Olly

Thanks Olly. 

[powerlord]

15 minutes ago, Rodd said:

Partly.  The RGB data was collected at 318 mm and the stars were bloated. It makes for difficult processing.  I figured who would use an electron microscope to peep. I will see if I can fix them. 

haha. I only peeped because I get the same problem! what I tend to do now if I see it is have a less deconvoluted layer and blend that in for those stars if it's particularly obvious.

I've become a pixel peeper! arg!! what have I done!

[Rodd]

You have evolved into a higher form. It can only bring improvement.  I am looking at removing the stars and replacing them with new, less exterminated stars. Sometimes these types of artifacts will be generated by PI’s star alignment tool. It’s a clamping threshold thing. Pretty frustrating. I think there is some evidence of this in my original Ha stack.  I’ll try and eliminate them.  

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, powerlord said:

haha. I only peeped because I get the same problem! what I tend to do now if I see it is have a less deconvoluted layer and blend that in for those stars if it's particularly obvious.

I've become a pixel peeper! arg!! what have I done!

I fixed tghe stars.  It turns out that I had con verted the PI file format of xisf to FITs for upload and several stars showed tghe artifacts.  So I worked with the original xisf file and removed the stars in linear state, then stretched them tso they approximately matched this images original stars.  Then I removed the stars in this image and replaced them with the new stars.  Thank you!!!  I am ashamed to have not noticed the artifacts.  The image is improved becuase you took the time to look.  No Extermination!

 

Edited October 4, 2023 by Rodd

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, powerlord said:

haha. I only peeped because I get the same problem! what I tend to do now if I see it is have a less deconvoluted layer and blend that in for those stars if it's particularly obvious.

I've become a pixel peeper! arg!! what have I done!

Here is the same image cropped and upsampled.  I did exterminate these stars to good effect I think.

[Rodd]

Here is the full image upsampled.  I suppose it is bin (-1)