Elephant Trunk Nebula. 2 hours, 1.5 min subs at 400 iso.

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I also noticed I have to still find that frame with the weird light sorce. Kind of looks cool tho lol.

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😮

i've never seen an artifact like that

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Kind of cool lol.

They say it's from a strange light source in one of my subs.

https://tenor.com/view/aliens-giorgio-conspiracion-memealiens-aliens-history-historychannel-gif-9621737

I say

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strange is an understatement

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Have a Crack at it with it in there lol.

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it twirls around and erupts 🤯

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Wonky space crafts.

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https://tenor.com/view/space-kitten-galaxy-cat-spinning-gif-15854614

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https://tenor.com/view/men-in-black-mib-alien-dying-brain-gif-16664647

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gonna try it, because why not

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Have fun sir. It's pretty decent data.

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maybe there's a plug-in or process in PixInsight for "Space-Time Vortex Removal"

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Going to try to find that frame tho.

I had to save that comment

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lol

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I'm cracking up

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get rc-astro on the job, stat!

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Get the CIA on the job, STAT!

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it will no doubt be called VorteXterminator

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This edit shall be the edit of all edits.

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submit it for an APOD saying you imaged an Einstein-Rosen Bridge

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I imaged a the eagle 5 going warp speed.

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😂

so this is a rokinon 135 lens?

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Yes

I did the Hercules cluster just to see how sharp it was with a small target the other night. First nebula.

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after getting a new mount, i probably will get one of those. i have an 85mm lens but it has aberrations badly

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Yeah I got a good copy. Definitely recommend it. I run the SWSA 2i on the swsa tripod with just my canon and lens. A dew heater band if I need one and my intervelometer.

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i'd be doing the same, except a SGP 😄

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I am upgrading mounts soon. Probably just the AZ GTI. It's all I need.

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might get a mount and piggyback it on my little z61 on my gem28 and do wide field and wider field 😄

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Wide and widest.

Do you have pixinsight?

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yes

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Ooo I am very curious of what you can do with that data then.

I need to invest.

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oh so that weirdness isn't over the nebula it seems

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Yeah I know that's what's cool about it lol.

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i can see a lot of dust/ha on that side of the image, but that odd thing is beyond me to deal with

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Like good dust or lens dust

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space dust

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Rats. I'm going to have to find the sub that has that and post that one as well.

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this is proving difficult for me 😅

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Because of Eagle 5?

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the background extraction

i had to start over. i'll show you what i'm dealing with

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Bad data?

Okie dokie

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doing star removal again...

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Lots of stars

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yes, stars-o-plenty

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Stars galore

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i think this is causing me problems. they're blocking everything i want to see

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https://tenor.com/view/plenty-thats-plenty-toilet-paper-gif-14977502

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stars @ 360mm focal length

richest star field i've imaged so far 😄

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https://tenor.com/view/smile-pointing-you-johnny-bravo-gif-16514064

Woah mama

Yeah 135 is wild with stars lol

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small Sagittarius star cloud (didn't all fit in frame with my small sensor)

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OoooooooOooo

I want to try this again at some point with no telephone wires.

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this is an autostretch after star removal

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Not bad

Dang

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the edges of the nebula seemed to be obscured by all the stars and removing them removed data with it

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I see that. It looks a little clipped.

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with stars ^^

what camera did you use?

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Yep nope. Canon t6 rebel

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interesting. same fov as my t7 but different pixel sizes

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I want to try my girlfriend's t7

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strange something here as wel

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It was a super supernova

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klingon bird of prey decloaking

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It was just a blip in the matrix.

Are you pixel peeping me sir? Buy me dinner first.

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https://tenor.com/view/mcdonalds-mcdo-gif-26175135

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I'll let it slide this time.

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Interpretive Processing

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Ooooooo

That's without any HA reds or what

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that's starless luminance combined with RGB stars

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aaahhhhhhh

I understand but I don't because i don't have Pix

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basically i removed the stars and made a fake L channel (or grayscaled the RGB) and tweaked it before adding RGB stars back. this allows a bit more contrast and the noise is disguised. (to me, at least)

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I suck at processing so when you explain it like that it helps a lot. It does look better.

Can it be made more colorful?

I gotta get Pix lol

Seems so much easier

And better

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making it black/white removes the color.

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it looks like this with color

someone with more experience/skill can very likely get more out of it. 🙂

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Still looks awesome! I really appreciate it.

I am going to still try to find the frame with what's wrong lol.

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This is from the Scutum Star Cloud, higher up in the Milky Way's band. Not sure how I forgot that lol.

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Super beautiful and sharp as well. Shows how close yet vast the distance is from eachother.