Somebody wanna give a shot at my 10 hours on the Horsehead?

[white spoke]

I doubled my exposure time on it last night and i can pull out a lot more detail. Im curious to see what other more talented people can come up with

[white spoke]

Oh I like that a lot. What did you use to process?

[autumn dagger]

Siril star net photoshop

I'm proud of it too, if you look at my discord history I'm not great at processing

[white spoke]

Star net?

Or is Star net a thing on Siril

I’m not the best at processing either I’m really tryna get better

[autumn dagger]

Starnet++ is a plug in for pixinsight and a standalone program that removes the stars so you can process the faint details easier

[plain cosmos]

I gave it a go using PixInsight only.
I applied all 3 Xterminators from RC Astro.
While processing this, I learned of a script called "CannonBandingReduction" which does reduce some of the banding which is cool. It gave me a tiny bit more breathing room while stretching it

[white spoke]

I just got my trail for pixinsight a few days ago, my andromeda pic in the deep space pics is my first pic edited on there. I will revisit this in pix for sure

[white spoke]

I love the way the flame nebula looks here

[verbal mesa]

Ok so I found this one a bit challenging. This is a quick process in PixInsight. It does look as though there's quite a lot of light fall off in the optical path (see second image), this isn't really very correctable, and I ended up being pretty brutal in my crop 🙂

[white spoke]

what causes that?

is it all the different framing in my images?

[verbal mesa]

Are you using flats? They correct for light fall off - vignetting - at the edges of the frame, as well as dust motes. If the optical path is too constrained - i.e., the width of the tube between the camera and the telescope is too small for the sensor to be fully illuminated at the edges - some vignetting cannot be corrected. To me the circular darkening of the edges to the left suggest either no flats, or flats but a constrained optical path. Edit: Or it could be that your telescope's image circle doesn't cover your sensor fully - some telescopes are optimised for crop frame cameras, for example my EdgeHD8, and don't work so well with full frame cameras, especially with a reducer attached (these further reduce the image circle)

[white spoke]

I always take flats, and for my first many images with the new cam I had crazy vignetting like that, recently I moved my IV/IR filter much closer to my sensor, and have been able to correct it so I believe my sensor was being cut off by the filter

[regal lichen]

Thought I would give it a go. Thank you for sharing. I don't think I have ever been able to get hold of 10 hours data haha!

[white spoke]

Right on brother! You pulled way more from that than I did! Great edit