Another Helix

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Taken over 3 nights on 8" F5 Newt with ASI071.
I first processed with DSS then Startools but wasn't very happy with. So I've got a Pixinsight trial.

This was a major learning curve (I mean still is ...). But I really like it. I've followed the workflow on
http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorials.html
Is this a reasonable place to start?

Did the sub selection, registration and stacking with PI. I really like this - it showed me that only the first night had good SNR. So out of 8.5 hours I've only used 4 hours for this. Here is the first go at processing in PI. I've still got to work on the background more (and the Helix for that matter).

Comments please

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

looks good to me Chris!

[glend (Glen)]

Nice Chris, you have managed to pick up the faint shock wave on the lower left.

[PKay (Peter)]

Looks good to me. Well done.

Re PI: I have just subscribed to this set of tutorials.
First 5 are free.

Well worth the $40 for one year.

Take heaps of notes and write out a workflow.

http://www.ip4ap.com/Subscriber/pixinsight_part_1

[Atmos (Colin)]

Looking good Chris!

[RickS (Rick)]

That's a good result, Chris.

Warren Keller, who does the IP4AP tutorials also has a PixInsight book. There's also a guy, Jim Morse, who has collected a heap of useful info from the PI Forum and elsewhere into a "crib sheet." PM me if you want a copy or details of how to sign up for future versions.

Cheers,
Rick.

[leon]

Nice effort mate

Leon

[xelasnave]

Hi Chris
You have done very well.
I am encouraged by your work as I have an f5 and am in Sydney.
I hope I can do as well as you.
alex

[multiweb (Marc)]

Well done. Very nice colors.

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Thanks all. And thanks for the links to PI resources.
Its amazing how much stuff there is in PI. One of the nice things I found was projects - where those with poor memory recall like me can easily reproduce a workflow.

F5 rules in Sydney Alex!