Quote:
Originally Posted by DWHealing
Thanks Alex! Exactly what I needed to know!
And thank you to everyone else. I am thinking to concentrate on one object and capture a few hours of images and see what I can see.
Then follow the GIMP tutorial.
|
You could consider getting Startools it is rather cheap and worth every cent..I would run stuff thru Startools then Gimp or Photo shop.
It is a case of ,generally, accept Startools settings and it does the rest ..it seems as nothing is happening but at the end you notice thats for sure..
They offer a free trial but to be honest I did not get it until I had bought it and used it quiet a few times.
AND the developer is an Australian guy who often drops in here to help.
The more subs you get the better ( so you can throw out more!!!!) ....but you need to go thru them and anything that is not a master piece throw it out ..Once I started with over 1000 but ended up with under 500 having gone thru three times..the approach one has is to use it if at all possible but I think the idea should be unless it is perfect it dont get in the stack...the final image is much much better I think you may find..blow each sub up and ask if you would hang it on the wall if not throw it out.
You could even experiment with the data you currently have ..go thru and stack only the perfect and see the difference.
Because of my system I like short exposures as somehow it is much easier to throw out the not perfect ones...
Folk say it is a waste of time but I use the 3x drizzle feature which is in Deep Sky Stacker..if your computer can manage it certainly try it..the final image is huge so you bin it in Startools ... actually try a throw out and stack with 3x drizzle if you are bored
But dont take any of my recent images as decent ..the RASA ones cause I am still sorting that unit out and it has problems so the perfect ones I stack are really far from perfect...
Also probably considered cheating but learn to use the dige and burn tool in GIMP as you can brighten or darken selected areas so if you want to bring a little more nebulosity out you use the dodge tool or say to darken a dush area a little use the burn tool..just dont overdo it...
Alex