4hrs of Pleiades with Z61 and Canon XSi

[bitter flame]

@native plinth Here's the data! I'd love to see other people's process on this data too!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z-4qKo919T65tPrnTZljeKWLrFImimus/view?usp=sharing

[sand saddle]

I cropped it a bit more than I'd have liked. I was in a rush and was having issues with the top-right corner during the DBE process.

[bitter flame]

Nice!

Your stars look very clean

What's your exact process for the stars in this image? @sand saddle

I had trouble getting decent looking stars

[sand saddle]

i used pixinsight to 'solve' the image, then did a photometric color calibration. then a slight histogram stretch to get all the stars at least visible, before running starXterminator on them. i increased saturation on the stars slightly, then did SCNR Green on them. after tweaking the starless, i recombined everything, denoised it, and ran blurXterminator with non-stellar adjustments at 20 (instead of 90). i use it mostly for star treatment.

[bitter flame]

ahh bXt that makes sense. I've been using Starnet and PS to treat stars.

[sand saddle]

i've never used PS. i'm certain there are ways to get similar results. my friend uses it and he gets nice stars on his z73

Here's how I used to do it. Run some unsharpmask on the stars to sharpen them, and then morphologicaltransformation (rolls right off the tongue!) to reduce them. it leaves weird looking dim stars though.

[tight river]

No stretch?

[bitter flame]

He was showing the star mask if I'm correct

[tight river]

Mk

[foggy jay]

ive got this

[bitter flame]

Oh shoot I forgot I posted this lol, nice process!

[foggy jay]

Thanks, im kind of a beginner in processing. I try to improve

[bitter flame]

Keep it up! Processing can take data a long way!

[quick wadi]

@bitter flame not my best processing but this data has got me VERY excited to shoot pleiades! thanks for sharing (:

[trim sigil]

I will try again tomorrow to see the difference after 4 months

[bitter flame]

Oo I like your stars! Also yes, I'm getting hyped again to shoot this target with more integration time and much less tilt this time.

[quick wadi]

Haha thanks! Very basic star processes, histo, SCNR, saturation. Yeah honestly M45 is something I’ve never been able too shoot, but now I can at F3.45 but yeah I think your image will come out amazing! Your FOV will get some more of the outer dust

[bitter flame]

F3.45 will be nice! But yea I'm hoping to get more of the dust.

[quick wadi]

Oh youll get it! make sure to @ me when youve shot the data, would love to try (:

[bitter flame]

Sure thing!

[prisma meteor]

my first process in a while 🫠

[bitter flame]

Lol understandable, colors aren't too bad tho!

[prisma meteor]

thanks!

[gray wave]

💀

[gray wave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIfvpSiPKb0

[manic parrot]

shall give a go

screwed the background

[bitter flame]

Ooo very nice

[native plinth]

whats the fl and pixel size?

[bitter flame]

360mm - 5.2 um

[gusty hawk]

that is some beautiful data!\

[bitter flame]

Thank you!

[obsidian tinsel]

oh damn 1s i gotta process

You sure its the uncompressed tif or fit file ?

interesting noise pattern

hm

[bitter flame]

That's weird, your using pix?

Is that a screen stretch?

[obsidian tinsel]

Siril

[obsidian tinsel]

Manual stretching

Appears in both auto stretch and manual stretch

[bitter flame]

Very weird, that's the untouched fit sooo.

[bitter flame]

Later I may be able to upload my new Pleiades, it's WIP so less than two hours.

[feral kindle]

gonna take a try at this rn

[feral kindle]

@bitter flame yeah like aurora said there is something wrong with this stack, Im not having the same issue but I have some weird compression banding

[bitter flame]

Turn dithering on in DBE window @feral kindle

Idk if that's what @obsidian tinsel issue was but it will create banding on my DSLR data.

[feral kindle]

@bitter flame Quick 20 minute process

[feral kindle]

Ill do that next time

I gotta get back to my exams

[bitter flame]

Nah your good, I'll have the new data uploaded by then likely.

[gray wave]

64 bits data.

Just enable this

[obsidian tinsel]

dont have pix sadly

[bitter flame]

My internet connection was ass so this didnt load in

Your colors are nice

star colors especially

[gusty hawk]

Even though I'm horrible at processing

[west stump]

🍤

[bitter flame]

lol its learning process for sure

[gray wave]

I recorded my processing and posted the video above... If you want, watch it there. You will have a good idea of ​​where to start processing

[plush yarrow]

i couldnt get much blue

[obsidian tinsel]

I think u processed my data rather then this threads one

this one dosent have spikes on the stars

[bitter flame]

Yea that looks way diff

[plush yarrow]

Yeah I definitely did I haven’t done ap for like a year so I was downloading a lot of peoples stuff so I could practice for tonight

[plush yarrow]

And I just chose the wrong file

[bitter flame]

Lol all good

[plush yarrow]

Alr lol

[ebon shadow]

we just dont talk about it

[bitter flame]

Lol, nice blues tho.

[ebon shadow]

background a bit green SCNR

[plush yarrow]

Oh yep I didn’t even realize that I should have done a green noise removal

[gray wave]

@short tartan

[night geyser]

hohoho i'm liking this
this data is SO GOOD

istg discord compression

[calm kite]

dang, thats pretty clean