Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th

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Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th

Post by Starry Jack »

I got more experiments today with the Quark (and I used flats to boot!). SO many large proms today!

I experimented on the PROMS and the same CHROM ARs with Quark NEG 2 and Quark ZERO. The sun went behind a tree before I could get Quark POS 2.

The flats seemed to increase contrast as well...is that correct?

QUARK NEGATIVE 2 (best 50 of 200 frames though AS3 then IMPPG then GIMP).
08_45_15 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-5329 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_45_15 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-5329 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (138.26 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_46_02 Q neg2 asi174 f27 152mm-4-6227 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_46_02 Q neg2 asi174 f27 152mm-4-6227 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (230.66 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_46_54 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-6067 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_46_54 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-6067 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (74.91 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_47_26 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-6322 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_47_26 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-6322 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (179.93 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_48_05 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-5588 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_48_05 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-5588 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (131.69 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_53_26 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-11792 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_53_26 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-11792 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (472.9 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_55_29 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-564 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_55_29 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-564 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (198.35 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
08_56_25 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-5499 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
08_56_25 Qneg2 no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-5499 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (469.04 KiB) Viewed 1650 times

QUARK ZERO
09_04_11 QZero no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-11351 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
09_04_11 QZero no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-11351 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (376.09 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
09_06_36 QZero no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-939 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
09_06_36 QZero no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-939 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (172.11 KiB) Viewed 1650 times
09_07_29 QZero no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-6078 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg
09_07_29 QZero no FR no Bar asi174 f27 152mm-4-6078 as3 to imppg to gimp.jpg (535.84 KiB) Viewed 1650 times


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Is there something wrong with most of the images?


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Are they not loading?


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Nice shots of the proms Jack!


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Jack, problem solved ...


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Hi Jack...

Nice collection of images and the proms are a challenge when they are so faint, but you still pulled them up!!!

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Post by Montana »

These are great, some super proms here :hamster:

I would say that neg2 is far more on band than zero (which doesn't look very nice - sorry). I would try negative 3, 4 and 5 next.

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Lol. No offense taken!!


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Lol. No offense taken!!


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Post by Carbon60 »

Jack,

Good images at neg 2. Maybe hold back on the deconvolution and apply more sharpening in ImPPG as you are introducing spotty artefacts into your images. I’ve found that these come in when the deconvolution scale is set too high and/or the number of iterations is set too high. The actual values depend on a number of variables. Play with the settings to see how they affect your image and use the zoom (plus) function to check the image quality in close. You should be able to pull out detail without introducing artefacts.

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Good stuff, Stu. Thank you. The large blobs are from the flats. I will indeed work on the small little round artifacts as directed.

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Starry Jack wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:15 pm The large blobs are from the flats.
You're not doing flats right if you're getting blobs.

Once the flat is set you can't change the focus, quark dial, rotate the camera etc. If you change any variables a new flat needs to be set.


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Crab nuggets. Ok! Good catch.

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You are getting there, Jack !

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Re: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th

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Thanks all. What's interesting is that the more I Practice the more I can see comments like Val's. But Alexandra's point is spot on, risk of a poor Quark in exchange vs the angst of exchange versus just pure enjoyment.

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