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Mar 27, 2024 16:16:53   #
Here are the following nights LRGB files. (2024-03-26)
Handled the same way as the Mono B&W files.

Downloadable if anyone would like to play or get up close.

Bodes and Cigar LRGB stacked

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Bodes and Cigar LRGB cropped

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Bodes and Cigar LRGB Stacked, cropped, and Lomo effect. Final

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Mar 27, 2024 01:07:48   #
btrlvngthruchem wrote:
Hey Sonny,

Thanks for answering my questions. I apologize because I just don't have the time to respond to your message in a way that it deserves. We're getting ready to leave for Mexico and an eclipse cruise, viewing it from just off the coast of Mazatlan. As much as I've traveled, this is the first visit to Mexico. Hope y'all enjoy the eclipse. I'll respond more when I return.

Jay


Have a good trip, Safe Travels!
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Mar 26, 2024 18:24:25   #
Bloke wrote:
Thanks! I have a few other shots, but really am a bit nervous about posting them in public... My facebook friends like them, but they are not as expert as
some of you guys on here.

The night I shot the moon, I couldn't get the scope to scan to anything else. I had been having problems connecting my phone to it, so was using an Ipad.
I found out later that the Ipad thinks I am in Cupertino, CA, so I don't know if it was sending weird directions or something.

I have seen quite a few of Cuiv's videos. Another I follow is the Astro Room. She is very good at keeping the level right for us newbies, and she is very
up on the Seestar!

Maybe I can force myself to upload some other targets... They aren't great, but the issue is my editing rather than any shortcomings of the scope.
Thanks! I have a few other shots, but really am a... (show quote)


Well Bloke, We all started somewhere.
My beginnings were all Picturds by todays output.
I like your Moon result. Nice!

I could almost never hit focus for years and years. And my stars were blobs. Those picturds were so bad, the disks they were on died.

So be brave, post what you can. And enjoy your SeeStar!
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Mar 26, 2024 18:14:11   #
ORpilot wrote:
It will be clear and sunny above 35,000ft all the way....


And really bright!

You got a glass ceiling plane?
Moon Roof? Convertable?
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Mar 26, 2024 18:10:31   #
btrlvngthruchem wrote:
Hey Sonny,

Did you use the 130 EDT for the Seagull Head? That should be right around 910 mm I think. Do you have to use a reducer and if so, how much does it reduce your focal length? I used a TeleVue 101NP-IS at 540 mm and the nebula really filled up the 2600 sensor. I think you should do a color image of the head itself as the detail from the 130 should look great. I was looking at more of your B&W images. I love B&W photography but it's not seen much in astro-work. You're a pioneer!

Jay
Hey Sonny, br br Did you use the 130 EDT for the ... (show quote)


The 130 is all I'm using now. The ED80T CF is setup for the Grandkids to do visual with now.
No, no reducer. In fact, Brian did some processing for me and concurred no flattener was needed for the 130.
So what you see is what I get. All I do is stack, crop, and very little else. Pure Space.
I used to use a color camera, an Atik Infinity a friend loaned me, then sold to me. It was an instant success from the first night.
But I wanted to venture into Mono, so got my ASI 1600MM Pro kit. I'm using the filters it came with, plus added a blacked out filter to shoot Darks and Bias frames in every sequence. The D&B are the last in the sequences I shoot.
B&W, to me, brings out the natural image. Although I do use filters to pop the details, HA7nm, SII and OIII.
On some I will do a second night with L,R,G,B. But all and any get stacked in Mono.

I still refer to myself as a processing minimalist. I don't sharpen either. It doesn't appeal to me.
I like to "get it right in the camera." Although, since going into NINA, and getting all the ducks in a row, I'm nearly at a point of a few clicks and go to bed.
I wake to a parked telescope and a SSD with last nights images stored in fits file format.
I dither every 5 images, Autofocus by Tempurature and HDR readings or filter changes. No more shivering under the stars unless it is necessary, like last night.
Last night things were getting wonky. So I did a quick start over and Polar Alignment, and a Star alignment. Then everything was running true again.
Since it had wasted a couple of hours of dark, I just grabbed onto a star between Bodes Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy and ran with it. Transparency wasn't the best with our stupid weather being what it is.

Here's what I got. 1. As it stacked. 2. Cropped the stacked. 3. After Brightness and Contrast auto, Lightness and Dark auto, and Lomo Effect. (Lomo is something in my Photoshop Elements 12 Editor program I bought over 10 years ago. It ain't fancy, but it's nice and simple.)

All 3 are downloadable if you want to play with them. Done in Narrowband only.
I think the Lomo Effect injected some very slight coloration to the final image.

If I was to go back to color, I doubt much would change. I like doing as little as possible.
So there you have it, about as natural as I can bring it.

To me, downloading each image let's you really see the Picture.

Feel free to download and try your own post processing, But they are jpg's, per file size requirements.

Right out of the file. Stacked image

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Cropped. To remove any artifacts or gar-bage`.

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After Brightness & Contrast, Lighten Darken, and Lomo Effect. Final image. No other post processing.

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Mar 26, 2024 01:42:52   #
The weather will be what the weather will be.

Solar filters can be used for much more than just eclipses.

You can put me down as an Optimistic Pessimist.
Shoot no matter what the atmosphere gives you where you are.

Make Shinola out of it.
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Mar 25, 2024 15:45:59   #
Hi Bloke!
Glad to see you got a SeeStar!
I'm betting those and others like them will be most of the Internet going forward.
For one thing, Super Resolution is falling to the wayside as services are paring down file sizes one can post.
And as a rule, pictures have to be uploaded as tiff or jpg formats.

Love your Moon Image! Looks great!

Yes, the general Youtube video's can be confusing for the very reason the posters are using varying versions. so ours look somewhat, to a lot, different.
For that, you have to use "Interpretive Viewing" and adapt the old to your new versions. But they did their video with what they had at the time.

Here's a Youtuber I like and have learned a lot from. Cuiv the Lazy Geek

He also has his version of Siril, a free processing software, he presents.

I hope you find some helpfull things in those.
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Mar 25, 2024 15:15:37   #
btrlvngthruchem wrote:
Hey Sonny,

You just got mostly the head and didn't get much of the rest of it. This is an LRGB image of the Seagull Nebula I just finished. Having more of the nebula visible provides a a more seagullish look than yours simply because you imaged mostly its head and if I cross my eyes and dot my tees, there is a strong resemblance to the bird in bwa's AI Masterpiece! You obviously have a lot more scope than I do. <seethingly jealous>

The one thing I like about this image is the bow shock to the right of center.

Jay
Hey Sonny, br br You just got mostly the head and... (show quote)


Hi Jay,
Now try it with a 910mm refractor instead of a wide field.

Let's compare Apples to Apples.

Oh, no need to be jealous. I have my original Orion ED80T CF, and my Astrotech 130mm EDT.
Just two telescopes with widely varying FOV.
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Mar 22, 2024 21:49:22   #
bwana wrote:
You might have noticed the footer to my messages regarding processing...

bwa


Yep.
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Mar 22, 2024 17:25:47   #
bwana wrote:
I have one of those for sale at the moment. Interested?

bwa


Heck no, I've got enough troubles with my inside out and upside down refractor.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:24:08   #
Retired CPO wrote:
Well, yeah! But looking the wrong direction isn't it??!
I like it! That's NO BS!


I think Brian's was taken with a left-handed refractor....

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Mar 22, 2024 14:57:53   #
bwana wrote:
Small elliptical galaxy and 13 million light-years from Earth. I'm surprised you got anything!

bwa


Oh, I'm terrible.
I use things like 5 minute exposures, then stack them. 20 images each.
HA7nm, SII, OIII, Darks and Bias frames.

I basically look in Stellarium, find a victim and click on it, then open a pre-made sequence in NINA and click on this little Icon to get the object from Stellarium.
I use two pre-made sequences the most, a 240 second, and a 300 second. Then adjust the file by turning on or off the filters to use.
I've all but gotten away from my L-R-G-B filters. But will use them for whatever details they might impart. Takes two nights, usually, to do Narrowband, then the skittles.

I was worried I might get bored, being so automatic and all. But to me, I like the method more than the result.
Auto focusing, auto Plate Solving, auto by NINA

I don't just set it and forget it though. I like to see the pictures coming in. Sometimes I watch the automated Meridian flips. This is stuff I only dreamed of when I started out.
Yep, this AI is kinda fun to me.

But not the processing. Nope, not the processing.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:16:43   #
bwana wrote:
Fair Ha response. Nicely done.

bwa


Thanks Brian.

I am tiring of the tiny faint fuzzies already though.
Think I'll start looking South again.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:11:44   #
Uh, yeah.
No.
That is bullshit.

You do know that AI stands for Artificial Idiocy, don't you?

We used to use crayons when I was in school.

Another Internet rendition.

Ahh yes, the Internet - Alice's Restaurant.
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Mar 22, 2024 12:33:42   #
bwana wrote:
Pretty decent nebulosity but I'm a bit unsure about the bird part...

bwa


I donno.
Some of this stuff just eludes me.
Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula? I mean, come on!

Anyway, to make up for aperture, I download it, then zoomed in, and there is a resemblance to a birds head that to me looks more like an eagle's beak.

Like I said, I don't name them, I just take picturds of them.
Most of these lately are really stretching the reach of my current telescope.
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