#Welcome to SemiPro's "Would I Promote Your Image on Astrobin?" - Feedback on Your Image Here!

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quartz ledge
quartz ledge
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Very nice. How did you perform that HDR?

quartz ledge
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I see

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I didn't see much difference in the faint dust?

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yeah, thats only 2 hours of data

drowsy iron
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Didnā€™t submit this later edit to the queue but only got one approval for top pick queue whatever itā€™s called , no dismissals though.

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Still feel I wouldnā€™t have gotten top pick with this one

drowsy iron
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wow that definitely is alot nicer with the points you gave thanks

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hmm yeah u do have to zoom in to see the effects of drizzle, unfortunate

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i appreciate u finding something taken with a very similar setup

drowsy iron
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definitely, yeah just a slight misuse of the instrument lol. carried away by details with mono + blurx

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what about drizzling 1x does that have an SNR effect?

hearty briar
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Really pleased with how this came out, it got decent traction and I'd like to use it as a ref for other galaxy projects in the future. So any recommendations would be nice.

WO Z61 APO w/ 1x flattener + ASI 1600MM - processed in Pix

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graceful parcel
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Rho Ophiuchi
5 Hours of Data
Bortle 5 Skies
Stock Canon 5D Mark III
Rokinon 135mm f2
SWSA 2i

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hearty briar
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Thank you, exactly how I feel about reducing stars with my Z61 data, stars carry a lot of my galaxy projs. BlurX did do a nice job of reducing bloated stars here so I left it as is, but will def play with reduction more in the future. Also the diff spikes are from a 3d printed spike mask (currently designing a new one with thinner veins to achieve, hopefully more satisfying star spikes). Greatful for the feedback man! Thanks again!

graceful parcel
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Thank you a lot, Iā€™m pretty sure this is in focus, this is cropped as the gradient you mentioned others had was kinda there for my image until I redid the dbe once I cropped it, was mainly near blue Horsehead for me so in my framing I got both so maybe thatā€™s why it looks a lil less detailed? I didnā€™t use any blurx, my roki is quite a good copy for a full frame sensor at f2 having almost perfect stars all round.

potent meadow
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Impart your wisdom semi

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potent meadow
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The blue side is star halos, but it still weird i agree.

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Correcting the core is a lost cause without significant HDR data.

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interesting. I tried GraXpert on linear and it though horsehead was a gradient and subtracted some of it.

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This is another, not done yet, im getting broadband.

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Thank you sir, appreciate it.

quartz ledge
drowsy iron
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so the trick for easy top pick is to do a somewhat unknown target and just really knock it out of the park?

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Just something they donā€™t see every day yk

quartz ledge
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Bit soft due to trailing, my scope is usually sharper

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I think I'll see sharper results with guiding

drowsy iron
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dang man.. Iā€™ve never seen that ha above and to the right preserved in the starfield

quartz ledge
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I honestly think Lagoon looks too dim here

drowsy iron
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My dbe takes out red signal there šŸ’€

quartz ledge
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I prefer bright nebulae in images to actually look bright, but problem is there's not enough dynamic range to keep them bright without clipping

drowsy iron
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Yeah wow apers have gotten alot better overall lately

potent meadow
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common targets are the easy targets lol

quartz ledge
quartz ledge
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I could get a sharper result with good seeingkekw Sculptor only rises to 20 degrees here, so I'm shooting through a thick atmosphere. I do get your point though

analog seal
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Large Magellanic Cloud
Untracked
10 nights, 3 hours total intergration
canon 650d (stock unmodified)
55-250mm lens (shot at 55mm f/4)
Aluminum Tripod

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analog seal
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Wow that's great advice thanks for taking your time to write it out

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I have been thinking about using a higher focal length on this, might do this sometime next year

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I wouldn't mind doing it but it's tricky since framing changes a lot.

graceful parcel
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I saw these images submitted before, so why not, this is also with the roki and stock dslr

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analog seal
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Corona Australis is out of season Sadge

potent meadow
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Nah just need a solar filter and a few million hours of integration

analog seal
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how would i get more resolution?

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just fine some image upscaler and do it ?

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had to crop down bc of gradients and stacking artifacts

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alr

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what are some tough targets that people appreciate a lot

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like witchhead

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orions over done to the extent its kinda not as interesting

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thats what i want to do now

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alr

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is dust with a stock dslr untracked something hard?

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theres a lot of dust at the SCP and i can go quite wide

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its IFN...havent seen any ha in that region

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I'll give jt a try

analog seal
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Or shot dust untracked

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It's near the Southern Celestial Pole so I can probs pull like 20s+ subs which would be nice

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Ill need to do some experimenting

buoyant shadow
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Any image i definitely had hopes for but never got an award @sharp grail

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Probably just wasnt sharo enough tho or deep enough XD

hearty briar
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That's insanely nice

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This isn't a final as I'm still finishing OIII but I'm curious what your thoughts are on the framing + colors. In the final I def need to work out retaining fine details and making sure the overall detail isn't soft.

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hearty briar
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Here is a revision utilizing deepsnr and better DBE.

38hrs of SHO - Z61 + 1600mm

hearty briar
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Zegery shut kekw

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Definitely, having issues with my reducer... From my testing it seems to be misaligned, likely due to the previous owner dropping it. Hopefully will be upgrading fracs soon. But yea blurX does wonders to the tilt but the star shapes are still wonky.

Also yea your statement on the color makes good sense, I felt a bit of green did more to boost the depth than without.

quartz ledge
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as a professional green hater, i dont actually hate this one

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one of the few times green looks good in an astro image

hearty briar
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Why thank you Zegery

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Good to hear. When in good balance, I feel it's a waste to not include the Ha greens... For most targets anyway.

drowsy iron
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It feels like itā€™s a NASA publication

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I think I was being reminded of WISE images

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or whatever else is done in false color green heavy

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just that ā€œopening upā€ POV you make with the crop on the spider region is šŸ’Æ

hearty briar
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HOO might be dropping next week

mystic fractal
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@sharp grail lmk what you think

14ā€ newt
1600mm cool
28hrs of exposure time

Data by @desert junco

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potent meadow
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Curious about how a basic M42 core would do. I know about the walking noise

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graceful parcel
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How are these two images?

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Also is IOTD restricted for users who have bought a costing subscription plan?

hearty briar
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Yerr, I have the lite subscription, which is the cheapest and it enables IOTD submission.

graceful parcel
hearty briar
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Tbh these days you could just submit to apod

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There standards seem to be getting lower and lower

graceful parcel
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My images wouldnā€™t win lol

hearty briar
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But still neat to get apod for sure

hearty briar
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Worth a shot

graceful parcel
hearty briar
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Lol wouldn't hurt

buoyant shadow
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Would u submit this

bronze compass
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explains..

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buoyant shadow
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But brother, how could you šŸ˜±, its iotd!!

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Like a pig?

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They taste good btw

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Really tasty food

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Fk why do i always ruin threads, smh

analog seal
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i thought this was pretty cool, shot this region since i wanted a contrast from the milkyway to the normal sky and wanted to create depth with the dust.

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buoyant shadow
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Thank you šŸ˜„

buoyant shadow
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It just needs a lot more data, its noisy

analog seal
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i spent 2 hours processing that in siril, getting the stars and the milkyway right was so hard and noisy

bronze compass
analog seal
bronze compass
analog seal
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yea i noticed that graidient when i sent it to my phone. i tried reprocessing it several times and came to the conclusion that there mustve been a reflected in my lens i didnt know about

hard narwhal
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Im interested to see what you think of my image here!

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hard narwhal
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Makes sense, softness is expected, sampling is at 0.39" and tilt is a pain XD lack of background galaxies is something i struggle with, despite the 14 hours of integration there was not as many as id hoped, anyway ill stop rambling, thank you for your feedback (:

buoyant shadow
bronze compass
steep flame
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No cigar for this but still be great to get your opinion, Iā€™m mulling whether to return to it

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hearty briar
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Incredible stuff

graceful parcel
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Detail is immaculate

hearty briar
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More data and it would be impeccable

graceful parcel
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Hubble is sweating intensely

steep flame
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Thanks gentsā€¦more data will certainly help but damn I need a lot of it for that faint stuff. Working on both more glass / less LP approaches for this year.

hearty briar
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Sick

steep flame
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Thanks totally agree, this is a crop from this FOV, then further processed, so that I have, data I donā€™t. Thanks for your reply will think about getting that data!

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bronze compass
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@sharp grail thoughts

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hearty briar
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May help if he let down some of the sat on the blues

bronze compass
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i agree, too bad i shot blue filter when cone was super low so atmosphere was causing that, unfortunately i dont have enough integration for more of that deep Ha dust around it
but i could do some selective masking to reduce the blue in the next process

buoyant shadow
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probably cause only 53 of 300 were good

midnight badger
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@sharp grail thoughts? from bortle 8-9 btw, 18h 2-panel mosaic

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vital sky
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Ok, any good? Messier 108, EdgeHD8@F10. Be interesting to know how far off I am.

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bronze compass
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@sharp grail thoughts ?
it may be a bit too saturated for the judges

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nimble python
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5th ever DSO I've done. Carina Nebula with a Nikon D300s (Unmodified), SWSA GTi and a WO Z61ii. 90mins integration at 30s each. Thoughts?

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analog seal
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cooked

nimble python
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cooked?

analog seal
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cooked.

nimble python
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what does cooked mean

analog seal
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overprocessed

silver geyser
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Ya

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A lighter stretch would make jt way better

hearty briar
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They're trying to say bring down the reds and keep the more natural tones.

nimble python
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yeah was testing the vibrance of it, trying to find the sweet spot where its visible and centre stage but not not shining in your face

analog seal
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also if you wanted carina in the centre of your frame, you messed up your framing

nimble python
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yeah i know, my mount was being weird last night so it took forever to even get to a target, so I was just glad it ended up in frame at all

analog seal
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was gonna point out the stars, just saw them now

nimble python
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welp, back to processing it is then

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i believe so, used starnet to isolate the nebulae, probably ended up playing around with the stars thinking it was the nebulae

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aint that the truth

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im in that middle ground atm trying to make the nebulae brighter without messing it all up given the stars absolutely COAT the image. Starnet gave me a very dull result for the nebulae (which isnt overly surprising given unmodified camera) but trying to make it less dull without oversaturating it is definitely something ive never had to do before

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ive actually never used pixinsight, so ill probably have a go with that

analog seal
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try out siril

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siril is free and has ghs

nimble python
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how's this?

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silver geyser
nimble python
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yeah it was a little clipped, changed the output to fix it up a little bit, not by much, but stopped the clip

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Yeah I was really hoping to get like 3 hours but only had till midnight when the clouds arrived and it doesnā€™t even get dark enough to polar align until just after 9. Hoping to get some better photos in the coming days.

graceful parcel
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Thoughts on these new images I took?
I believe the rosette is nice but I do agree with one of your past statements for the Statue of Liberty as this would probably look better with a broadband combination

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analog seal
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šŸ‘€

vital sky
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Great feedback, thanks, yes definitely needs more and better data. I was shooting in poor seeing / poor transparency. That star is very much an SCT thing, I still have some tweaking to do with the telescope I guess. Agree it's over sharpened. Thought I might have over cooked the colour too šŸ™‚

hearty briar
analog seal
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oh damn it went through?

hearty briar
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Top Pick nomination

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But not IOTD yet

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Likely won't get IOTD, it's a bit soft tbh.

analog seal
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damn

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Congrats!!!

hearty briar
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Wanted to post a revision but I believe that would reset IOTD submission.

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silver geyser
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Yeah that happened to matija

hearty briar
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Ahh yea I figured

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But yea a nice surprise regardless

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Just got the email a while ago lol

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Definitely!

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Very hyped for galaxy season... Trying to get a hold of a 80-100mm triplet.

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Likely going to run an Askar 103 at f4.

astral prairie
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Do galaxy shots in mono need the RGB times to be 1:1 with the luminance? I always thought 1/3 would do enough

hearty briar
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For most LRGB projects, 1/3 of Lum for RGB is the least you'd want to go. If you have say 6hrs of Lum it would certainly be nice to have 6hrs of each color filter... But not necessary.

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Tbh it's usually better to compromise between lum and RGB integration times in order to get a bit more signal in lum while still having maybe 1/2 of that for RGB.

astral prairie
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Do you think the exposures times have to be the same as the luminance:?

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Ie: 300 seconds of luminance? Does that need 300 Seconds of rgb each?\

hearty briar
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I generally keep them the same just for simplicity when pre processing

astral prairie
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I see

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I would generally keep them 1/3rd as well for the actual exposure to save time and spend more on Lum. Wonder if i have been doing that wrong

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Your shot looks awesome so Id wager your right

hearty briar
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I could go 120s on Lum and 300s on RGB as my color filters have a bit more contrast... My light pollution limits luminance sub times to around 120s without clipping star cores.

hearty briar
astral prairie
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Ahh i see, so its more a matter of "preferenace ?"

hearty briar
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But if you can it's always nice to get a bit of extra RGB for decreased color noise

astral prairie
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Have you tried a light pollution filter for your L?

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I was thinking of swapping in my Antlia RGB from my osc to see how it does in mono (works great in OSC)

hearty briar
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I have not, I'm in bortle 6 so it could be much worse.

hearty briar
astral prairie
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Lucky!

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Bortle 9 for at least 2 hours in each direction

hearty briar
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Oh my, that's gotta be annoying af

astral prairie
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Yeah couldve picked a better hobby

hearty briar
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Narrowband can be quite fun tho

astral prairie
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you can still get most targets, it just takes time

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removing gradients has become much easier now too thanks to PI and Graxpert

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narrowband looks about the same

hearty briar
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Oh yea, pix was a dream to use with Mono.

hearty briar
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Emission nebulae look the same Broadband vs narrowband?

astral prairie
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My results with NB in dark skies is not that much different in the end

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emission doesnt seem to be worth the trip to dark skies for me, when it comes to SHO etc.

hearty briar
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Oh yea id do narrowband in b9 and save broadband for dark skies

astral prairie
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like i m sure the signal quality is much better, but its not worth the hassle, would rather shoot osc or lrgb

hearty briar
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Definitely

astral prairie
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for sure!

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The dream is a remote shack somewhere in the desert

hearty briar
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I gotta find a place like 45 min away with at least low B4 skies.

astral prairie
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that sounds like a nice problem to have

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Not sure if you really need darker then that

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like the jump from b4 to b1 would def not be the same like a jump from 6 tp 4

hearty briar
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Not too sure, it's on my bucket list to visit bortle 1.

hard narwhal
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@sharp grail hows these

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cunning stone
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Hit me

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I just got my 3rd promotion so Ik its competitive, but I'd like to know what I can do to go even further beyond.

hearty briar
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Oh dam what's your AB @cunning stone ?

cunning stone
hearty briar
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Your m87 is fantastic

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Resolving that jet is no easy feat

cunning stone
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And with such short integration too!

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Only 48m!

hearty briar
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Dayum

hard narwhal
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Thank you! Yeah stars suck, not really sure why either tbh, same with the second image, i never had that before with the C8 but Iā€™ve started using a reducer so maybe that couldve caused it? Idk but thank you for the input! (:

cunning stone
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Thank you! Yeah the stars are off compared to my other images since I didn't really use a proper HDR method to get the image "HDR'd" since nothing would work I just stacked two different sets, the good core data, and the overexposed core, went over to GIMP, overlayed, and called it a day. The overexposed core data is absurdly higher SNR than the final product, but since I used gimp the overlay overlayed the integration noise on the good data. I might try a reversal of what I did to help with that though.

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winter marsh
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after you do @feral fable 's much nicer image, could you have a quick look at mine? im just wondering how far off i am and if you have any feedback for me.
its taken with a modified 6d and roki135, swsa and bortle 5 skies.
thanks!

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buoyant shadow
graceful parcel
nocturne roost
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kinda makes me want to try it

winter marsh
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thanks guys!

graceful parcel
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I need to give up on ap

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a bortle 5 image bet my bortle 1 image

winter marsh
graceful parcel
winter marsh
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also my gear carries hard

graceful parcel
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Cuz I wanna

winter marsh
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love seeing what other ppl do

graceful parcel
winter marsh
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true, everyone has their own style and equipment, i think comparing aspects of our photos is good tho, so you know what to improve on

nocturne roost
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^ yea comparing yourself to others and learning from others is pretty fundamental in all aspects of life

graceful parcel
winter marsh
feral fable
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Thanks. Iā€™m fine with average and I donā€™t want to win any contest with my pictures. Yeah the framing is actually pretty bad, because my plate solve had some problems.

I just wanted to know if there are some things I could do better next time (with the given data and obv. bad framing).

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I really didn't know that the title of the thread was meant literally. šŸ˜‚ Sorry for wasting your time šŸ™‚

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Ok šŸ™‚

bronze compass
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"I think you could actually squeak out a TPN with this. I would not call it too saturated, and its not in the SHO that we see all the time with the Rosette so it stands out. Pretty decent detail too."

Broadband good detail rosette is something of a rarity these days soo..

potent meadow
buoyant shadow
bronze compass
buoyant shadow
bronze compass
bronze charm
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I know it wouldn't get any awards because its a popular target but I would just like some feedback

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Keep in mind this was taken with an evoguide 50 and 533mc pro on top of a SWSA

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Stars a a tad weird and I tried fighting the pesky halo and reflections from alnitak

potent meadow
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Kinda unfortunate that framing and whatnot is so important. You can have a fairly high quality image of small targets like this, but without zooming in it looks like a image of stars.

I thought about cropping, but there is a galaxy cluster top right which I wanted to keep, even though itā€™s small.

winter marsh
winter marsh
wanton valley
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Meh I'll throw this here

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bronze compass
analog seal
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šŸ§¹

bronze charm
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What is all that brown stuff it literally looks like crap

bronze compass
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Lack of proper DBE

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or it might be the Ha ?
or red something to do with it

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looks like red layer on top of the image ?!

bronze charm
somber dock
analog seal
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not looking for an astrobin IOTD since ik what youll say but curious how this is from you @sharp grail

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This is shot with the 18-55mm kit lens btw so that's why there's CA

analog seal
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Yea its pretty bad when pixel peeping

potent meadow
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just downscale 10%

analog seal
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Starnet left a lot of purple star halos. Was not fun dealing with

somber dock
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thanks for your input

quartz ledge
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You use it wrong

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I'm gonna have to make a video on this at this point. DeepSNR is not just plug and play for OSC

analog seal
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I didn't use starx. Only starnet was my removal tool

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Completely agree with semipro. Don't need to buy a star removal when you can get one for free which does a good job

hearty briar
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StarX simply preserves smooth backgrounds so much better. Starnet no matter how well the data was tailored for it couldnt match starX in terms of splotchy backgrounds.

graceful parcel
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Here is the tarantula nebula agin, I remember showing you this image before this time I got more then double the data and I think it looks pretty nice here, I tried a different palette here to make the image look unique and stand out better

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winter marsh
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it actually looks like a tarantula haha

cosmic harness
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@sharp grail I put this on Astrobin. It only got 1 promotor vote. So just wondering whatā€™s wrong with it

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Iā€™ve looked at a lot of Rosette nebulas, and most of them donā€™t even look close to that good

cosmic harness
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Itā€™s 4 hours of OSC

cosmic harness
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Getting a 2600 soon, so hopefully I can get a wider field of view but Iā€™m time limited with my imaging.

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It didnā€™t look like there was a lot of noise in the image. I thought I got it pretty good.

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Right now Iā€™m actually working on the bubble nebula this is what Iā€™ve got so far

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wanton valley
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Absolutely nothing against your image btw, it looks great

cosmic harness
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Yeah, itā€™s just funny because Iā€™ve seen images way worse than mine that Iā€™ve gotten promoted. I had a feeling it was just OSC. Hate or Hyperstar hate šŸ˜‰

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Iā€™m not sure what are my friends# Mark Wetzel has gotten some awards in the past for images that I donā€™t think where is clear as that one was. I mean my image appears to be technically very good I mean I go more for realism, then false colors maybe thatā€™s a fail of mine.

silver geyser
cosmic harness
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Actual dust

nocturne roost
cosmic harness
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Yes

nocturne roost
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i like using advanced search to see what standards to aim for

cosmic harness
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I have the top-tier subscription

nocturne roost
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searching ngc 2244 and then sorting by likes

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yea i was just about to do that

cosmic harness
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Yeah, almost all of those are not natural colors

wanton valley
nocturne roost
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bit of a weird pic but tpn from this year

wanton valley
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Agreed

nocturne roost
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there actually just arent that many rosette awards

cosmic harness
wanton valley
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It looks great from afar, just not so much when you zoom in

wanton valley
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There definitely is something

nocturne roost
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entire first page has so few awards compared to likes for rosette. this target is just overshot i think

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wanton valley
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Yeah agreed

analog seal
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rosette, orion and horsehead are your crowd pleaser targets. everyone will shoot them since they look nice to people who know nothing about space

potent meadow
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If you want tpn or IOTD just open SHASSA, find some hydrogen and dust and dump 200 hours in it.

wanton valley
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You're trying to appeal to a completely different demographic on ab

nocturne roost
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yea thats a good st at

cosmic harness
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I thought, and I guess I was wrong that AstroBin was more about technical ability than pretty pretty colors

potent meadow
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Astrobin is about that but yeah

wanton valley
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It's an art gallery

nocturne roost
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yea technical + visually appealing

wanton valley
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Just like regular art, colors and composition are technical abilities

cosmic harness
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The reason I was curious is with the rosette I have gotten more likes and compliments on all of the platforms on that image and any of my other previous images. Combined the guys in my club. Some of them have been doing Astro photography since the film days said it was amazing.

nocturne roost
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have you seen some of those club images?

potent meadow
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That may be part of the problem.

nocturne roost
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ive found that local organisations often have bad standards

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compared to global community on AB

cosmic harness
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Especially for only four hours of integration and yes, my one friend Mark has a bunch of awards on AstroBin. Heā€™s the guy with that plain wave Telescope I talked about earlier.

nocturne roost
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thats the other thing, astrobin doesnt care about integration time or gear

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in my experience

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just the final image

wanton valley
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I could be wrong, but I don't think astrobin takes the specific integration time into account yeah

cosmic harness
nocturne roost
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nice images

wanton valley
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Yeah solid stuff

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Lots of tpn's

potent meadow
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I mean, some are nice. Others are uhh

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wanton valley
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Lmao

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Idk, the other thing about ap that I feel like not a lot of people take into account is how subjective things really are

nocturne roost
potent meadow
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Yeah

wanton valley
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And I find that you, as the person who took the image, will almost always have a warped view of its quality (be that over or under inflated)

nocturne roost
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stop using tslive nerd, go buy your own remote cdk

cosmic harness
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Actually, for the most part, I think Iā€™m my harshest is critic, but like I said that image has gotten more likes and compliments than any of my other previous images thatā€™s why I was curious what was wrong with it and pretty much the response I got was framing which is not much I can do about that cause Iā€™m limited with the camera I have right now and itā€™s just overdone too many people shoot it

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I wasnā€™t really expecting an award. I was expecting it to get more than one like from the critics.

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From what Iā€™m gathering the fact that I got even one like was pretty amazing

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I mean promotion

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@sharp grail thanks for the feedback thoughā€¦

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Yeah, actually Iā€™ve only been doing Astro photography for a year as of pretty much this week last year I shot the same target for my wife you know to give her a rose for Valentineā€™s Day so this year I decided to do the same target and Iā€™ve improved a lot in one year

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This is the one I did a year ago

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buoyant shadow
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Its too tight

wanton valley
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Interesting

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As in, you feel the fov should be wider?

hearty briar
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Nothing's cut off awkwardly atleast

silver geyser
wanton valley
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OSC, taurus molecular cloud. I'm glad you like it!

hidden locust
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@sharp grail

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Just interested to see what this would be

silver geyser
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Ik it isn't too great and didn't have much time on it but I wanna know what can be better aside from more data. Ngc 2841

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bronze compass
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@sharp grail thoughts

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wanton valley
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Really cool framing, but needs a lot more data imo

hidden locust
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@sharp grail

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Oh, are lucky imaged pics not that popular?

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What would that be, for instance?

bronze compass
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Aight, btw thats an iotd from year 2 ago

silver geyser
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So not top pick but it's pretty good for what it's at. A larger target would be more ideal?

bronze compass
silver geyser
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Same thing

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Okay

quartz ledge
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It has some flaws, but lets see how you rate this one

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uneven beacon
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@sharp grail opinions?

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bronze compass
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2021 was a time of its own

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jeez

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and then you have this thins from last year

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uneven beacon
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So like detail doesnā€™t matter?

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Damn

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Yea fair

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Iā€™ll have to find other niche PNs ig

hearty briar
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Hmmm considering that image, thoughts on this? Nothing unique except maybe for newt style stars. May fav image so far from the Esprit 80.

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hearty briar
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Yea that's what pcc gave me, I agree on the magenta being a bit much but didn't want to desaturate it or anything.

bronze compass
hearty briar
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Something like this

bronze compass
analog seal
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what happened to you saying orions overdone?

hearty briar
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Good to know

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Still can't believe that's only 3hrs LRGB from bortle 5/6

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  • Orion is behind an airport lightdome behind my house lol
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Understandable

quartz ledge
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Completely fair. I usually keep my images softer for personal preference, there was some room to be sharpened if I wanted to

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Very controversial but I like the halos, I have em because I shoot full spectrum

nocturne roost
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Softer for personal preference

quartz ledge
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I'm not trying to push my scope

steep flame
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Thanks for all the time and effort youā€™ve put it to this thread, itā€™s been super interesting to many Iā€™m sure.

buoyant shadow
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@sharp grail say that again

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wow ur getting professional, automated responses

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lmao

quartz ledge
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Not mine, but would you promote this?

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silver geyser
quartz ledge
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Yeah how'd you know

silver geyser
nocturne roost
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takes something thats for sure

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aint no way anyone promotes that surely

silver geyser
nocturne roost
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apod or iotd

silver geyser
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apod...

nocturne roost
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means nothing then

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apod isnt at all impressive

silver geyser
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yea

bronze compass
buoyant shadow
buoyant shadow
quartz ledge
winter marsh
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wow i love how well balanced the slight noise reduction is, together with the natural noise profile

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i would personally have added a slight more noise reduction

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i heard topaz denoise is super good for astro

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anyways my compliments to the chef šŸ‘Øā€šŸ³

nocturne roost
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newest top pick rosette

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bronze compass
buoyant shadow
hearty briar
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Background a lil weird tho

graceful parcel
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Revive

graceful parcel
gray pasture
analog seal
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@sharp grail when making a return?

bronze compass