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You get great results with this setup Pedro!


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Thanks Mark

PixInsight is great but it does have a steep learning curve


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I never tire of seeing M13. I’ll never forget seeing it for the first time in my old 50mm Focal refractor at 50x for the first time just over 40 years ago. Even though it appeared in the scope as a fairly faint fuzzy ball. It ignited my interest in deep sky and boosted my interest in astronomy at that time. ( March 1982 ) I’d had the scope since December 1978 but had used it only to view the Moon, Sun, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. It and a pair of 10x50 Traq binoculars served me well at the time for Deep Sky. But spurred on by M13 I would purchase a better 60mm Traq refractor and a Coulter 10.1” Dobsonian by mid 83’. The dob blew me away since it resolved the cluster into a bright ball of stars and brought so much more into view. I still have the 60mm Traq and Coulter 10.1” Odyssey Compact. I just wish I still had the time to observe that I did in those days.

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You seem to have nice dark skies, Pedro.

Do you use a DSLR or a videocam and image stacking to take these?


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No James, I always use refrigerated CCD cameras STL11000 (Full Frame)


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WoW, neither a videocam or a DSLR. I guess you can stack with these, Manually I guess. Or are there a need to?

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DeepSolar64 wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:25 pm WoW, neither a videocam or a DSLR. I guess you can stack with these, Manually I guess. Or are there a need to?

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I’ll take a look Pedro. I am certainly curious on how you get these wonderful deep sky pictures.


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Very nice work Pedro!


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DeepSolar64 wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:48 pm Very nice work Pedro!
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I remember viewing M101 back in 1985 when we still had really dark skies here using a friends 15" F4.1 dobsonian. I could see every HII region and star cloud in the face on galaxy. It gave an almost photographic view. I'll never forget it.


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I love globular clusters, Pedro. I have a soft place in my heart for those magnificent balls of stars.


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Pedro,
How dark are your skies? Your pics seem to suggest they are quite dark.

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Re: TMB 175 F/8

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The Dumbbell Nebula. M27. A showpiece at this time of year!!


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Re: TMB 175 F/8

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NoiseXTerminator – The best noise reduction plug-in hands down


DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TUTORIALS | Pedro RE'
DEEP-SKY IMAGING | TMB175 F/8 | SBIG STL11000 (M51)
RC-ASTRO NoiseXTerminator (Photoshop Plug-in)
http://pedroreastrophotography.com/

NoiseXTerminator is a fast and easy-to-use AI-powered noise reduction tool specifically for astrophotography. While powerful AI-based noise reduction and detail enhancement solutions exist for general photography, they were not trained on astrophotos. As a result, they often mangle the stars and invent detail that simply isn't there.
NoiseXTerminator was trained exclusively on deep-sky astrophotos, so its neural network is "familiar" with how stars should look and the types of detail we see in our photos. It can perform natural detail enhancement without boosting noise or inventing non-existent structure.
NoiseXTerminator is available as a plug-in for both PixInsight and Photoshop. The Photoshop version also works with Affinity Photo.

• In Photoshop, you can select a small area of the image and quickly evaluate different NoiseXTerminator settings. Use "undo" to revert a change to the selected area.
• The "Denoise" parameter literally determines the fraction of what the neural network identifies as noise will be removed from the image – setting it to 1.00 will tell NoiseXTerminator to try to remove 100% of the noise from the image. As with all noise reduction solutions, completely removing the noise can result in an artificially-clean image with a "waxy" appearance. This a matter of taste, of course, but try setting the Denoise parameter to a slightly lower value (e.g., between 0.75 and 0.90) to retain some noise for a more natural appearance.
• The "Detail" parameter acts much like controlling the radius of an unsharp masking operation, but it is noise-aware. It can sharpen details in the presence of noise, and without boosting it. In general, the best value for Detail is a bit lower than a value that produces dark halos around small stars.

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Re: TMB 175 F/8

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I wish NoiseXterminator was available for GIMP.


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pedro wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 11:00 pm NoiseXTerminator – The best noise reduction plug-in hands down


DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TUTORIALS | Pedro RE'
DEEP-SKY IMAGING | TMB175 F/8 | SBIG STL11000 (M51)
RC-ASTRO NoiseXTerminator (Photoshop Plug-in)
http://pedroreastrophotography.com/

NoiseXTerminator is a fast and easy-to-use AI-powered noise reduction tool specifically for astrophotography. While powerful AI-based noise reduction and detail enhancement solutions exist for general photography, they were not trained on astrophotos. As a result, they often mangle the stars and invent detail that simply isn't there.
NoiseXTerminator was trained exclusively on deep-sky astrophotos, so its neural network is "familiar" with how stars should look and the types of detail we see in our photos. It can perform natural detail enhancement without boosting noise or inventing non-existent structure.
NoiseXTerminator is available as a plug-in for both PixInsight and Photoshop. The Photoshop version also works with Affinity Photo.

• In Photoshop, you can select a small area of the image and quickly evaluate different NoiseXTerminator settings. Use "undo" to revert a change to the selected area.
• The "Denoise" parameter literally determines the fraction of what the neural network identifies as noise will be removed from the image – setting it to 1.00 will tell NoiseXTerminator to try to remove 100% of the noise from the image. As with all noise reduction solutions, completely removing the noise can result in an artificially-clean image with a "waxy" appearance. This a matter of taste, of course, but try setting the Denoise parameter to a slightly lower value (e.g., between 0.75 and 0.90) to retain some noise for a more natural appearance.
• The "Detail" parameter acts much like controlling the radius of an unsharp masking operation, but it is noise-aware. It can sharpen details in the presence of noise, and without boosting it. In general, the best value for Detail is a bit lower than a value that produces dark halos around small stars.

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Does it help with the sun's h-alpha?


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Yes, it works well with H-alpha solar images. Mainly proms, it's not great for surface details. Check out the images below
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DEEP-SKY IMAGING | TMB175 F/8 | SBIG STL11000 (M22)
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Re: TMB 175 F/8

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Pedro,
M22 is among my favorite globulars. I have fond memories seeing it for the first time using my old 10x50 Traq binoculars and 50mm Focal refractor back in the summer of 1982. It would appear brighter I think than M13 or M5 and is certainly a bit larger in apparent size than either two if it was higher in the sky at my latitude.

Nice DS work Pedro. As good as your solar work is I think your DS stuff is even better. And WoW what a refractor.

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Thanks James

DS imaging was my first love


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pedro wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:51 am Thanks James

DS imaging was my first love
I understand. DS visual was mine.


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Bill Blanshan’s star reduction methods
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DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TUTORIALS | Pedro RE'
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