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[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Captured this data over 11 nights in April. All up just over 21 hours total LRGB integration using the Meade SN10, QSI683 and EQ8.

I quite like the part in the top left. I reminds me of Jar Jar Binks (with head tilted left).

Big version is here:
https://astrob.in/full/xjp4ev/0/

As always, comments and advice welcome. Thanks for looking

[multiweb (Marc)]

Top shelf Peter. Great colours.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Thanks Marc. I'm quite pleased with how this one worked out. I've been experimenting with some new PI scripts

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Great Image Peter,

must have been a few nights capturing 21 hours with limited sky view

Well done

Geoff

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Cheers Geoff. I've had it running all night most clear nights over the past few months and collecting loads of data. I can get about 2 hours on a target each night between the trees. Automation has made a huge difference to my capture productivity.

[vlazg (George)]

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Cheers Geoff. I've had it running all night most clear nights over the past few months and collecting loads of data. I can get about 2 hours on a target each night between the trees. Automation has made a huge difference to my capture productivity.

Great prawn,
21 hours @ 2 hours per target per night……. I admire your patience, it would be a total pain in the butt.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Excellent depth and colour. Great stuff.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Originally Posted by vlazg

Great prawn,
21 hours @ 2 hours per target per night……. I admire your patience, it would be a total pain in the butt.

Thanks George. I actually didn't have to do much once I got the script set up and slept through a lot of the actual imaging time. My strategy going forward is to keep imaging a target while it is visible (over many nights) and then wait until it is no longer available before I start trying to process. In many cases my limited horizon means there is often only one target to choose from at any particular time so I'm likely going to accumulate a lot of data on a target in that instance. If there is more than one thing worth imaging I will set a target number of subs for each target and move on to the next object when I'm done with the first.

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Excellent depth and colour. Great stuff.

Cheers Pete. I had 14 hours of LUM and 2.5 hours each of RGB. It is amazing how much easier it is to process when there is plenty of raw data. I didn't do any noise reduction and the rejection/stacking algorithm took care of any dodgy subs without me going through each one. I did take onboard some advice from IIS members on some additional processing steps (Decon and HDRMultiscaleTransform with a bit of S-Curve tweak at the end) and I think these really made a difference.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

You’ve put some hard work into this one Peter with great results.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Great colourful image there Pete!

Mike

[DavidTrap (David)]

Very impressive - how are you going tweaking the Voyager Drag Script?

DT

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

You’ve put some hard work into this one Peter with great results.

Thanks Rodney. Appreciate the feedback.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great colourful image there Pete!

Mike

Thanks Mike....no worms?

Originally Posted by DavidTrap

Very impressive - how are you going tweaking the Voyager Drag Script?

DT

Dragscript is working well but I still find a reason to tweak here and there. The python script is working well but I'm sure could be better. I've been trying to learn sql to move a lot of data out of csv files. It has been good to dabble with python and I've taken a side track playing with Orange AI.