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Post by Dragon Man on Jan 28, 2024 11:24:12 GMT
After many trials and tribulations with my new gear, and the resultant terrible images from it so far, see here: astrovideoforum.proboards.com/thread/3023/aaagghhh-camera-nightmareI may have discovered a better method. I have been using MaximDL5 for Capture and stacking, and pre-processing, then PhotoShop. I was warned however, not to use MaximDL for the Stacking and pre-processing parts as it's not a fantastic program and is hard to use. I should have listened. After studying and attempting N.I.N.A and shoving it aside in a rapid motion tonight I gave 'Siril' a chance to prove itself in the Stacking and Pre-Processing side of things. WOW! what an amazing difference. Here's a simple Mono stack and process from Siril with the images I captured in MaximDL. Much better detail.
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Post by Dragon Man on Jan 28, 2024 15:09:32 GMT
and here's tonight's Processing of all LRGB frames. Not there yet, but it's a whole lot better than my last effort using MaximDL for the Pre-processing. This is done in Siril and PhotoShop. It's cropped to get rid of the really bad bit of Vignetting.
I really hope I can improve as this is an expensive outfit. It definitely better improve!!
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Post by Rick in NWArk on Feb 8, 2024 15:20:32 GMT
While I love all of the nebulous filaments and details, my eye was immediately drawn to the dark nebula NE of center. How striking!
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 9, 2024 17:36:04 GMT
Yes Rick, it is a really dark area. It looks similar to Dark Nebula or a large Bok Globule, but it is actually a hole in the Gas cloud, showing very dark space behind the nebula.
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 13, 2024 14:52:32 GMT
I did a reprocess on this Carina Image. After doing a reprocess on my Running Chicken image and gaining a big improvement I did the same on this one.
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