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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Nice , longer subs help to bring out finer detail and edges, if you look at my effort the subs are 360s, I am Bortle 6/7 skies  |
Yours is nice too. I usually stick with 60s subs. It seems to be a sweet spot for this scope (10" F4) compared to my previous scope (8" F6). Plus, with longer subs I usually end up having to throw out quite a few more because of guiding issues with long exposures. Although, pushing it out to 120s did seem to be OK this time. The guiding behaved itself quite well.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCook
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Cool. Some reflector owners go to great lengths to remove diffraction spikes, and here we have a refractor owner trying to put them in.
Personally, I've always liked the spikes in my images.
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Originally Posted by Dave882
I really like what you’ve done here - kept it looking quite natural and unforced. Broadband osc I do kinda prefer on this target to the nb as it seems to retain this ethereal transparency. Whatever you’re doing in your processing keep going as it’s working well. Greta job!
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Thanks. I'm still learning the art of applying curves. I have to say, BlurXTerminator did a fantastic job of sharpening the stars, although I did dial down the star sharpening to 0.3. The default of 0.5 is too much IMHO. Ten days left of my trial, but I can see myself splashing the cash for BXT once my trial ends. It's fantastic.