5hr 20mins (updated) of Rosette Rokinon 135 / Uranus-C combo - Looking to add more integration time

[fiery salmon]

Added some more data (5hr 20 mins now)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/145C4bacaAiQQblWQHnyczS7WrZDoFq1G/view?usp=sharing

I have added another hour of data
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l22YI7hSZWce1fYfEJab73yfUvsRJQmv/view?usp=sharing

Original 1hr 50 mins
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1icYgF7eAq_7xnUQYZ20Wg0-2nSQ2KKNP/view?usp=sharing

2min subs using l-extreme in B7

My processing is not great yet as Im pretty new to this.. I used Siril/starnet and gimp

Shame I wasnt more centered

[half sleet]

ill give it a shot

u got some mad dust spots

[fiery salmon]

You sure they aren't star halos from my l-extreme? The flats should have eliminated any dust spots

[half sleet]

mb

they halos

[fiery salmon]

Im my process I basically used spot healer to ditch em on the starless image

I will sell my l-extreme at some point and try another narrowband filter the halos can be a pain

[half sleet]

my whole pc is buggin. it wont letme send. Ill send in a bit

[formal python]

imma try my luck with it as well

[fiery salmon]

Thanks, good luck with the halos!

[formal python]

what's your focal length the pixel size?

for pmcc

@fiery salmon sorry for ping

[fiery salmon]

135mm and 2.9um

[formal python]

eh, good. Thanks!

[fiery salmon]

1hr 50mins of Rosette Rokinon 135 / Uranus-C combo - Looking to add more integration time

[formal python]

@fiery salmon here's a quick edit. I did it using a fake SHO palette

hope u like it

view in browser for the best quality

[fiery salmon]

Wowsers, That's awesome!... How did you eliminate so much noise? Actually just how did you do it all?

I have a lot to learn RE processing

It's nice you managed to avoid cropping out the top where I dithered away (even though I can just see where it is)

[formal python]

yeah i saw it rn. You could crop it, i forgot 🙂

[formal python]

glad you like it 🙂 imma try to edit it in that red/orange color, but i really like the SHO(even tho i also have OSC camera :)) )

[fiery salmon]

I do.. what tools did you use? and how did you clean up the noise so well?

[formal python]

pixinsight

and a lil bit of photoshop(raw filter and smart sharpen)

[formal python]

acndr with masking, and range mask for noise and curves

[fiery salmon]

I somehow know you were going to say that... Seems to be the holy grail of processing tools 🙂 I think Id better grab a copy

[formal python]

yeah

i also have a copy 🙂 dont have money for the paid version, unfortunately

[formal python]

you could try to do the same things in siril, but i found it easier to do them in pix

here's another one @fiery salmon

[formal python]

you really should get rid of that color noise

in Lightroom or ps

[fiery salmon]

Niiice! Not sure which I prefer, they are both impressive. What did you do to tackle the halos by the way?

[formal python]

this one is better, the background is darker

[formal python]

windows photos app =))

[fiery salmon]

Yeah pretty much what i did in gimp

[fiery salmon]

3hr 6mins of Rosette Rokinon 135 / Uranus-C combo - Looking to add more integration time

Added more data now!

3hr 6mins (updated) of Rosette Rokinon 135 / Uranus-C combo - Looking to add more integration time

[formal python]

yo, you guys have clear skies there. Here is snowing rn ::) in April tho

[formal python]

cute, i wanna try it again

[fiery salmon]

Be glad to see what you can do... I still wish i know how to eliminate the noise like you did. I seem to struggle with that

I tried to get a trial licence for PI but after the initial email saying they needed to manually verify I have had no response 😦 They seem to want to make it hard for me to evaluate and buy this software which seems daft

[formal python]

@fiery salmon what do you think?

the data was kinda way better, imo. Easier to remove the noise, and the signal was a bit stronger

[fiery salmon]

Nice! Like the subtle Cyan's that you pulled out of the inner nebula. I wasn't expecting too much from the data as I was shooting between clouds but it's amazing how much difference an extra hr makes

Going to try and grab more data before it finally disappears for the season

[formal python]

this is what i got from it, with my scope, at 715mm

my FOV 💩

[fiery salmon]

Nice. A newt I assume?

[formal python]

yep. A 130PDS with a Canon 600Da

[formal python]

but this is about

8h ig

7 and half

with 180" subs

and i dont like the edit that much, but still dont know how to do it better

[fiery salmon]

Wowsers that's a decent amount of data. What skies are you under?

[formal python]

b3

[fiery salmon]

Envious of that. Must give you nice data

[formal python]

yeah, it should. But 2 wks of clouds 🙂

[fiery salmon]

Well that rosette image is 2 nights worth after 3 weeks of solid cloud so I know how you feel. The second night was only partially clear

[sick yacht]

Could someoe change the pink bg to balack in my procces

[fiery salmon]

Like where you are going with this 🔥

[sick yacht]

idk is it good or bad

[fiery salmon]

Could be great, if you can neutralise the background. I like the nebula colours!

[formal python]

very nice colors, indeed! You should try to neutralize the bkg

[sick yacht]

ok

[sick yacht]

fric I frogot to save the ral procces no I have to restart

[sick yacht]

Someone could do bettar than me at removign the bg

[dawn dagger]

extracting the background made it green lol

[sick yacht]

lol

[sick yacht]

try creating an mask for the nebula then mess with hue/saturaton. Im new photoshop

[dawn dagger]

quickly tried to match your colors

[sick yacht]

not bad

#1092397834277486644 message
Try to copy the original procces colros

the middle of your reprocces looks fine

just a bit less blue

and a bit mroe orange/yellow

[dawn dagger]

maybe more like that

[fiery salmon]

Wow. That's quite hypnotic. I like it though. Like looking through a portal into the abyss of space

I collected another couple of hours of data the past two nights so I'll update soon with another file

[formal python]

cant wait! 😉

[fiery salmon]

5hr 20mins (updated) of Rosette Rokinon 135 / Uranus-C combo - Looking to add more integration time

Here ya go 5hr 2o now

[formal python]

you really have clear sky ::) imma try this data

[formal python]

how did u manage to remove the noise? You did a great job, tbh

[fiery salmon]

I just did a layer mask using the grey scale in gimp on the starless layer to mask the nebulae sort of feathered then Gaussian blur of the background. A bit crude but worked

[fiery salmon]

Love this! Great job. Ok need to work on less noisy data. Not sure how without a cooled camera

[formal python]

i think you need more data or idk, lower the gain, take longer subs

i dont have that much noise from a dslr, so...

[fiery salmon]

Hmm interesting. My gain is 180. And sub length 120s. Will need to setup guiding for longer subs

[fiery salmon]

Nice job. I like it

[fiery salmon]

Maybe it's my stacking settings in DSS 🤔

[fiery salmon]

You did a nice job of removing the noise? How did you do it? I like the o colour you pulled out too

[celest haven]

Noise exterminator

[hollow yoke]

What bortle sky are you in? What was the moon like? Is this with an L-Extreme?

[fiery salmon]

This was nearly full moon under B7 sky

so no ideal condirtions

[hollow yoke]

How long were your subs?

[fiery salmon]

120s

[hollow yoke]

High temps?

[fiery salmon]

9-14 degrees sesnor temp Celsius across the 3 days, The subs are pretty much the max i can do as I dont have a guide scope yet

[hollow yoke]

Gain and offset?

[fiery salmon]

My gain was 180 I dont think i touced offset

[hollow yoke]

I think this is expected amount of noise for this integration given the circumstances. I maybe would have expected a bit less

[fiery salmon]

OK thanks for taking a look, I think I need to look at trying a target further towards zenith and nearer new moon to get better signal to noise ration?

[hollow yoke]

New moon always helps

[fiery salmon]

Yeah I would think so... this target was getting pretty low in the sky too at this point of the year. I just dont really know what to expect as this is only the second image I have done.

I just thought 5hrs of data would give me a cleaner image... maybe I just need to invest in PI and noise exterminator 😆

[hollow yoke]

There are lots of great NR tools but none are a substitute for integration tiime

[fiery salmon]

Yeah that was my thinking, I just wanted to check my process isn't at fault. I really appreciate you taking a look for me, thanks.

[hollow yoke]

It's workable data for sure

[fiery salmon]

Impressive.. I will try and get a eval copy of PI but they don't make it easy to get a evaluation license 😦

[hollow yoke]

Really? I remember the process was quite simple when I first got my trial, that was a while ago but I don't think they had any problems sharing

[fiery salmon]

Well i filled out the form then they sent an email saying they needed to "manually verify" the request and haven't heard anything back since. I suspect its because i filled out a made up address... Not sure why they need my home addres to give me a trial license 🤷‍♂️

I may re apply and see what happens

[hollow yoke]

I think it was the same when I applied, took a week to verify if I remember

[fiery salmon]

OK maybe thats it then

[plush salmon]

here's my attempt

[fiery salmon]

I had a go at making a SHO style

[tranquil girder]

I tried it

I hope you liked it

I used photoshop only

[fiery salmon]

Good stuff! Awesome colours

[tranquil girder]

Thanks!