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Originally Posted by Startrek
Dave,
That’s a fine result from a faint Galaxy under our crappy light pollution
I’ve imaged NGC 300 a few times from my dark skies down south with the old 8” and still can’t resolve the sort of detail you’ve managed to pull out under less than ideal skies
Well done indeed !!
Your image scale using that 2600MC with that massive focal length must be around 0.30 to 0.40 super oversampled ( I’m around 0.88 in Sydney and 0.62 down south in the Dome with the 10” )
Do you use Startools, I couldn’t remember, you could Bin the crap out it to get your noise down and signal up , plus there’s a load of noise mitigating tools as well , not too many folk like using it , I certainly do
Cheers
Martin
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Hi thanks mate. It’s not as super crisp as id like due to the majority of the integration from poor ish conditions. One night was fantastic, but just not enough data on its own to smooth the sky noise! It’s a game of compromise. Yeah the image scales not ideal- I think I’m about 0.28 from memory so unless it’s a truely exceptional night I end up binning in processing. I’ve been using APP that’s pretty basic but also super easy to use which suits me right now. I did a scale factor so this at 0.5 (eqivealnt to bin2). PS /LR has been my option for noise control. When I have a bunch of spare time I’m going to give either startools or PI a go - it’s really impressive what I see come from u pros!