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Originally Posted by Startrek
Josh,
Nice Rosette , thanks for posting
We don’t see to many Rosettes on this forum due to its low traverse
Those RC plugin’s certainly clean up the atmospheric blur at low altitudes and resolve fine detail
Top notch
Well done !
Martin
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Thanks for looking Martin!
I think the Rosette is relatively well positioned for me, it hits a high of ~55 degrees, and spend ~6.5 hours above 30 degrees. The really sad part is that this 6 night project took 3 months to complete because of our poor summer weather patterns.
The atmospheric blur for my raw stacks is really minimal, My final Ha, O3, and S2 stacks have a (Pixinsight) measured Moffat4 FWHM of ~3.1 arc-seconds. Which I'm more than happy with.
The "AI" tools have been a blessing and a curse to the hobby, they too often get used (and abused) as a crutch to attempt to cover up poor technique, poor equipment configuration, and poor data. I can definitely understand the decision to not use them.
But, as with anything digital, the output is only as good as the input, and I've found that being
ruthless during the frame culling has had the single biggest positive impact on my image quality.
I think my Raw data is about as clean as my equipment and conditions will allow, I've attached a 100% crop from the raw Ha stack to help illustrate that.
I've also got a few other (non-AI) techniques up my sleeve to really enhance the quality of the final result.
