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Originally Posted by DavidU
You have done well Chris. Doing well now aincha  |
Thanks David, I am getting there, slowly, but its working
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Well, ya've kinda butchered the stars a little Chris...  , especially the fainter ones... but the core blend is well handled and given your trials and tribulations, not to mention your pristine Andes like location  I'd say it's a success and congrats on building the light box too
Mike |
DAMMIT Mike! I knew you would pick those up....!
I honestly don't know what the issue is there with the faint stars??? I used to think it was DSS and the stretching on it I did on the stacked result before saving to TIFF, but this one didnt get DSS stretched and I basically didnt stretch it much at all in Photoshop as the histogram was full already?
I am thinking it may be the camera as I have compared it to some DSLR shots through the same scope and the DSLR fills out these stars beautifully.
I did get some slight drift on the subs from some dodgy alignment coz I was getting impatient, but each sub, while some were better than others, looked quite good with the seeing and guiding I was getting.
So, in a nutshell I dunno? Yes, they look butchered, but the nebulosity and smoothness win this battle, ESPECIALLY with a fully calibrated (for once) image, so I am relatively happy. I intentionally didnt process the stars to fix them up in Startools, simply because I wanted to keep it
au naturel as possible, so inevitably, they are pretty shoddy for reasons I am yet to figure out.......
Machu Pichu my backyard AIN'T, so I no complain about this sort of result
Thanks for the comments Mike
Cheers
Chris