Skull & Crossbones

[oska (John)]

I started on this one with the EON85 and 0.8x reducer (450mm).
Between comets, witches, chickens, star clusters and shifting stuff around I continued with the 8" F/5 newt and stacked it all in APP with its different camera/optics feature. I'm still learning APP so it took me several goes to get it to not error, mainly because I had so many files and cal files I made mistakes allocating sessions. Finally got it sorted.

This was taken over several weeks getting as little as 45min on some nights.

The crop to get rid of the stacking/combining artefacts leaves this at 1:1, no reduction just a jpg crunch to bring them down to 220kb to post.

I went for standard? palette this time but did a foraxx for the fun of it. I think the standard is better by far, definitely enhances the detail but the foraxx is more arty :rainbowsparkles:

I initially stacked each scope separately and the newt's data was "nicer" than the eon's but I had so much (for me) I didn't want to waste it.


EON85 + 0.8x + EQ6R + NINA
ASI1600mm + Antlia Pro
65 x 300s (~5hrs) each of SHO (200g 25o -10C)

BT200 f/5 + TSGPU + G11 + NINA
ASI1600mm + Antlia Pro
55 x 300s (~5hrs) of H (139g 25o -10C)
40 x 300s (~3.5hrs) of S (139g 25o -10C)
40 x 300s (~3.5hrs) of O (139g 25o -10C)

APP + PI

[xelasnave]

You have become the master oh great one.

Wonderful work and when you get multiple stacking worked out please a thread on how it is done...one day if I ever get things working etc I want to see how I can use more than one scope to make an image...there is a lot to think about and who better to work it out than someone like you who knows what they are doing.

Again fantastic work.

Alex

[oska (John)]

Cheers Alex, any improvement can only be from your generous and patient mentoring.

I don't know about "worked out", it took much clicking and gnashing

The short version:
- Load the files from each setup as a separate session
- uncheck "same camera and optics" in the register tab
- select "integrate per channel" and "integrate all & per session" at the top in the integrate tab
- integrate.

I probably forgot to do something important but that's how I bumbled through.

[Doogs38 (Alex)]

Beautiful images, John. Can't say anything more than that - SHO/HOO mono images are insanely good looking. How much integration do you have ... 21-22hrs? Alex

[oska (John)]

Cheers Alex, about 27 I think. I'm already scheming how to get a 2600mm.

[oska (John)]

I redid just the BT200 data (~12hrs) and didn't murder the stars (as much) and played with a different palette. I like this one much better.

[Stephane]

Beautiful image John. Certainly not a beginner image in my opinion. Well done.

[oska (John)]

Cheers Stephane, I hope your new rig is in hand now?

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Looking great, John. Well done indeed.

[oska (John)]

Cheers Steve.