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Old 11-01-2021, 09:11 PM
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Fire in the Sky!

It's been a while since I loaded an image here - been busy sorting out automation!

During Melbourne Covid lockdown #One in March last year, I decided to learn automation - along the way and with much fiddling and frustration; I've tried Kstars/Ekos directly on the mac, Voyager on PC, SGP on PC and finally ... Stellarmate!

This is my first image from my new Stellarmate/Rpi4/KStars/Ekos Macbook pro combo and I'm delighted, not so much because it's good ol' M42, but because I took it while sitting on the couch as the 'Scope- Plate solved, Locked on, Auto focussed, Calibrated, Guided, Changed filters, Meridian flipped and did it all over again for three nights!

Still some minor niggles with porting and multi-star guiding to resolve, but nearly there now = A full night's sleep while imaging at last!

I chose M42 because it's big, bright and required meridian flips to image during the night. Now most folks would agree that M42 looks best in broadband LRGB, so it's a great challenge to try and produce a pleasing narrowband colour palette. Hopefully this one works!

ASTROBIN UPDATE

Remapped colours of the Running Man & Fan to better balance emissions using Eric Coles Localised Histogram balancing method.

3 Hrs each 5nm Ha & S2, 3 Hrs 3nm O3 from my light polluted suburban location in Melbourne, Australia. Average seeing, Bortle 5/6 skies.
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Old 11-01-2021, 09:20 PM
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A superb rendition and all automated to boot. Very cool.
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Old 11-01-2021, 10:04 PM
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I agree re M42 and RGB but hey, this is quite pretty Andy with some nice filamentary details

Great to hear you have your rig essentially all automated now too (jealous ) must be quite satisfying

Now tells us...did you use that dastardly AI sharpening..?

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Old 11-01-2021, 10:39 PM
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I hope not.
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Old 12-01-2021, 12:18 AM
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Pretty wild Andy. But it kind of works in an arty way. Don't tell me your going to put your hair in a bun and make decaf lattes now!

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Old 12-01-2021, 07:53 AM
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I agree re M42 and RGB but hey, this is quite pretty Andy with some nice filamentary details

Great to hear you have your rig essentially all automated now too (jealous ) must be quite satisfying

Now tells us...did you use that dastardly AI sharpening..?

Mike
Thanks Mike, glad you liked it - it's taken a loooong time to get this far!

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I hope not.
Relax Gentlemen, no photons were harmed in this image.
(The process is only suited to starless images, and I didn't take any RGB stars to insert in this one.)

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Pretty wild Andy. But it kind of works in an arty way. Don't tell me your going to put your hair in a bun and make decaf lattes now!

Greg.
Thanks Greg, unlikely, I'd need to have hair first!

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A superb rendition and all automated to boot. Very cool.
Merci Marc! It's been at least 5 years since I last visited this still remarkably beautiful object! I'll probably move on to something less frequently imaged next.

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Old 12-01-2021, 07:59 AM
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Holy Smoke on the Water Batman! Rendered whilst listening to Deep Purple eh?
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Old 12-01-2021, 08:32 AM
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Holy Smoke on the Water Batman! Rendered whilst listening to Deep Purple eh?
Lol, well played Peter! You have picked up on my love of classic British rock
Although I was actually listening to a bit of ambient Brian Eno when rendering this one
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Definitely a wow and high impact image Andy. We need the sunnies for this one
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Old 12-01-2021, 10:58 AM
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Definitely a wow and high impact image Andy. We need the sunnies for this one
Cheers Rodney!



I've also just remapped colours of the Running Man & Fan to better balance emissions using Eric Coles Localised Histogram balancing method.

ASTROBIN UPDATE
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Old 12-01-2021, 12:49 PM
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Now I have Smoke on the Water as an earworm, thanks!

So great to see all that work we have been doing paying off in getting automation happening for you. A bit more power distribution management and it will be really sweet.
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Old 12-01-2021, 02:31 PM
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Definitely Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky. There's lots there beside flying lead. We'll think of your image fondly next time we turn the knob up to eleven.
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It certainly brings out the depth! Very nice
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Definitely Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky. There's lots there beside flying lead. We'll think of your image fondly next time we turn the knob up to eleven.
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It certainly brings out the depth! Very nice
Cheers Paul, M&T & Jo - Seems that I've left a 'sonic footprint' of Orion for you to enjoy
Currently couch bound recovering from foot surgery, but I'm hoping to be back on the imaging horse next week.

Thanks for the nice feedback!
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