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Originally Posted by Slawomir
On the other hand, I think that experimenting with numerous processing tools and techniques, breaking boundaries and over-cooking astro images brings invaluable experience that is essential in personal growth as an amateur astro imager and it allows for acquiring in-depth understanding of how to skilfully process astro data. I reckon it would be quite a challenge to find an amateur astro imager who have never clipped a histogram or destroyed good data with noise reduction. Besides, everyone is at a different stage in their journey and have different circumstances, so acquiring good data may not always be possible.
Just my two cents.
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Nah.....I'm thinking you've put the cart before the horse.
You wouldn't try to palm off a photo-shoot of a bride on her wedding day by taking out of focus .jpg images, with motion blur and the wrong colour temp...then hope like hell there is a Photoshop filter to fix the mess. (You'd also probably get sued )
Also, you don't need a $100k rig to get good data. There are simply some basics you have to get right first up.
In focus? If not re-check and shoot again!
Stars round ? If not check polar alignment, tracking, auto-guiding parameters, mechanicals until they are.
Image noise? Insufficient exposure time/ bad calibration frames. Maybe both. More telescope time and nail your reduction data prior to image calibration.
Only then should you fuss with the smoke and mirrors of post-processing...
that's my 5 cents worth
