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Old 28-05-2012, 01:35 AM
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Octane (Humayun)
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Grabbed the last two panels.

Reduction in Maxim DL and then mosaiced in PixInsight using the GradientsMergeMosaic module.

There has been no DynamicBackgroundExtraction or any other noise reduction other than a very, very quick histogram stretch (copied STF to HistogramTransformation) and a quick levels/curves iteration in Photoshop. I will need to play around a bit more to smooth it out, but, it is very, very promising thus far.

This is the first imaging I've done in six months. I am so glad that I still have the skills! Except for one newbie mistake -- I was wondering why my guidestar calibration kept failing on the STL-11000M in Maxim DL. Turns out I had forgot to plug the serial autoguider cable in. Oops! Once that was plugged in, it was smooth sailing.

9 hours in luminance and counting. I have 1 hour of red for panel 1 completed. I'll be heading out to Frank's every chance I get; just spent 4 nights out there but only one was useable until 4:30 AM. Friday night was perfect except for the gale force winds that were blowing. Didn't bother to image.

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