M3 - ASI485MC - RC6 + F6.3 Reducer

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I am still capturing subs for this target, but here is a quick preview of this year's M3. The stars came out of Siril oversaturated so I dialed down the colors in Gimp. Having trouble getting consistently round stars tonight, so just using 30 second subs.

- GraXpert - gradient removal and noise reduction

- Siril - photometric color calibration and stretching

- AstroSharp - AI sharpening

- Gimp - desaturate and selective sharpening of the core

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More data, more stretching less color. Looks like there is more detail hidden in the data. but can I get it out?

Edited May 4 by Ags

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Obviously I need to add flats and also more data to calm the background... Unfortunately I could only use about 30% of subs because of tracking issues.

Version 2 also omits AI sharpening, which seems to have significantly improved the star shapes.

Edited May 4 by Ags

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Flats added. Reprocessed with 60% of the subs (75 minutes of data). I tried to thread the needle between the bright, noisy and colorless second version and the less stretched first version.

Edited May 5 by Ags

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Still playing....