NGC1232

[shadow temple]

what're the specs?

[verbal hound]

Yes list of gear used would be helpful, also it appears your color channels are not aligned? Is this mono data?

[snow gyro]

Not bad! Chromatic aberration is clearly visible, but it's also very clean, which makes it very easy to get rid of almost entirely:

Edited to fix the chromatic aberration, hope it didn't downgrade the image quality

[verbal hound]

Did you align the channels orr something else?

Doesn't appear to be CA from optics tbh

[main kernel]

It was mono data and it was my first time editing a photo so I knew it would be bad. I also used a Seestar S50.

[verbal hound]

Your saying that image was with a seestar s50?

[main kernel]

Yes, I am. I had to download the files to my phone and then to my PC to put it through Siril

[verbal hound]

But the seestar isn't mono

Should be OSC data

You didn't have to combine R G and B correct?

[main kernel]

No, I may have gotten it mixed up with my IC63 data that I got with a different setup. I sold that gear and got the Seestar, The NGC1232 data wasn't my actual first image edited, my IC63 wasn't good at all so I don't count it as.

[snow gyro]

So basically, and this is very bootleg: I loaded the image into a digital art program called Ibis Paint, and gave it a chromatic aberration filter that contrasts the chromatic aberration already on the image, and since the two cancelled each other out, it looks almost normal now, with almost unnoticeable aberration.

[verbal hound]

Interesting

And maybe slightly cursed lmao

But yea it looks much better

[snow gyro]

Yeah it's a little cursed

But hey, it works!

(Only with very clean aberrations like those though, I imagine)

[main kernel]

It worked and looks way better though.

[verbal hound]

Yea I'm confused lol, the seestar cant get anywhere near that resolution. That's an incredibly small galaxy

[main kernel]

This may have been an older photo then. I just found it in a folder labeled "NGC1232" I never checked the date.

[verbal hound]

Ahh yea, must be. Nice detail tho.

What scope did you use on the old rig?

[snow gyro]

Ehh well, I'm glad I could help!

[main kernel]

I tried removing noise. does it look better?

[snow gyro]

Huh

well it's very blue

[main kernel]

Yea, its what Siril did to it.

[snow gyro]

Is there a way to combat the blueness or is that just kind of a thing that tends to happen?

[main kernel]

I don't know. maybe I can remove blue from it. I'll try.

[main kernel]

No I cannot remove the blue unless i'm missing something

[snow gyro]

Ah

[vagrant sparrow]

When I was a begginer I used to edit a lot in photopea
It’s a free browser photoshop like thing

And it can do wonders

[verbal hound]

If he's using window/Mac, then gimp is a better option.

Since it can take advantage of hardware acceleration

More tools likely

[verbal hound]

Uhh what process did you apply?

[main kernel]

In Siril there is a dropdown menu labeled "Image proscessing" and on it there is a process that is just "Noise reduction."

[verbal hound]

Yea, apparently it doesn't like your image for some reason

[verbal hound]

SiriLs noise reduction isn't worth it tbh

I'd avoid that

[main kernel]

Okay

[verbal hound]

Doesn't perform very well in most images

[main kernel]

What should I use for noise reduction?

[verbal hound]

Well, I believe gimp has some noise reduction features, which can be used along with masks to avoid detail loss.

Otherwise you'd need Photoshop and noiseXterminator which are both paid software