[Dave882 (David)]

It was a bit of a spur of the moment late night decision last week to test out the autorun function on the ASIAIR Pro while I went to bed. Needed a small target I could get with the l-extreme since it was a 90% moon…

Bunch of firsts for this one:
First time capturing ngc3132
First time autorun AAP (worked perfectly btw)
First time processing a full image- used Startools (stacked dss)

C14 with the 0.63 reducer and l-extreme
Eq8 with the ASIAIR pro for capture
3hrs of 1min exposures culled to 153subs
Stacked DSS
Processed Startools and a big crop

I’ve had a few goes at Startools before without much luck but decided to give it another go on the trial before deciding to buy the licence. After using Martins (startrek) procedure as a starting point I spent a crazy amount of time flicking a heap of different sliders and every so often finding one that made a good improvement. I was certainly able to extract a lot of detail that was completely impossible with gimp/ps so I reckon it’s going to become something I spend a bit more time with. Still pretty noisy, I’m sure I’ll be able to do better with practice (stuffed up the colour balance I think) and would certainly appreciate any comments for improvement.

Thanks for looking!