Thor's Helmet 3.4 hours

[sharp zinc]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HRPGxArV6ZagSQQFC48C27YANCWIILzQ/view?usp=sharing
3.76 um (2x drizzle) 500mm FL

definitely could've put more effort in it but its aight

[sharp zinc]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h3gR83m-qDvEHNbCT3AvewPS3ClszORt/view?usp=sharing TIF

[tulip hollow]

@sharp zinc Hey, you can probably tell by this that I am very new to editing stacked images, lol. This is my second ever edit, I hope you like it!

Definitely does not have as much stretch and color as yours, I was just trying it out.

[sharp zinc]

Wow! You’ve got some really nice hues in there :)

Thanks for processing

[subtle pivot]

noisy but I'm happy

[neat whale]

Im also pretty new at editing especially with pixinsight, if yall got some good tutorials, feedback or recomendation pls let me know

[hazy vessel]

Can you share the drizzle x2 without the autocrop file.. Just the drizzle x2?

[sinful musk]

Nice data! Thanks for sharing 🙂

[astral night]

cool data, mid process (mainly my stars suck)

made the mistake of doing curves in early star processing

didnt realise that cooked it until later

[sharp zinc]

Take ur stars out while doing curves and add them in later!

good dust colours tho 🔥

[sharp zinc]

I can see if I have it. What for?

[astral night]

yeah i did

i mean i stretched the stars as the first step of delinearisation

(before HT)

which is pretty dumb

for the starless layer i applied GHS, arcsinh transform, and RGB/k + saturation curve

[slender mural]

that was a delight to work on, amazing data

[sharp zinc]

ey thats fire

i like the starless wtf that goes hard

[slender mural]

yeah the starless really stands out nicely

[untold lynx]

yeah nice data

[slender mural]

@sharp zinc i cant help keep editing this data! 😂

saturated to hell but looks beautiful lol (to me anyway lol)

[left zodiac]

kinda destroyed the background Ha to remove color mottle but oh well... also I resampled it back to the original res cause my PC is slow

[sharp zinc]

ahhahah i like it

[slender mural]

thanks 🙂 honestly im learning loads on pixlnsight with your data, just wish i could learn all the rest like the real advanced stuff and really go wild on this haha

[sharp zinc]

imo its all the little things that make a good difference, like dark structure enchance, star reduction.

i recommend using curves transformation for almost everything after you do an STF autostretch

its the only tool i really use to edit the colours

[slender mural]

ive barely got past curves, histogram, all the X's lol

[sharp zinc]

you might like my running chicken data

[slender mural]

do spectro color and that, but the real advanced stuff like messing around with the alpha channels and re-combining and that im barely scratching the surface

[slender mural]

erm..... already downloaded it lmao

[sharp zinc]

ehhh, i dont even use that stuff. i prolly could try doing continuum subtraction but i cant be assed. you can get good results by learning to master the curves transformation tool

[sharp zinc]

have at it ahhahah

[slender mural]

i would but your data is that good its crashing my pixlnsight lmao!! im on a i3 laptop with 4gb ram haha

[sharp zinc]

oh my god ahahha

[slender mural]

building a 6core rixen5 with 64gb ram and 8gb graphics card desktop but money is low so its a slow progress haha

[sharp zinc]

the 2x drizzle prolly doesnt help at all

[sharp zinc]

oooooo thatll be fun

[slender mural]

yeah im literally building this pc JUST for pixlnsight and my astro recording haha

[sharp zinc]

im running a ryzen 7 6800H RTX3060 16gb ddr5 laptop. its not that bad, its got a good display 2560x1600

[slender mural]

damm!

[sharp zinc]

cost way too much tho ahhaha

but it was good for my use case

[slender mural]

yeah way out of my price range thats for sure haha

[sharp zinc]

what graphics are you thinking?

[slender mural]

this laptop i only got for using my rig on but then i found pixlnsight and well....

[sharp zinc]

smth 30 series or above so you can get GPU acceleration

hahah fair

[slender mural]

rx580 or something like that

8gb

its pretty much all i can get, it should be enough for what i need (hopefully)

[sharp zinc]

nice nice

[slender mural]

#1197029237962580038 message - its this ive been trying to work out most of the evening, its the Ha, Oii and Sii but on pixln they come up as gray, ok fair enough i thought must be a way i can combine, found something but cant remember the name but it says basically cant convert gray, got to be color and then i got stumped lmao

[sharp zinc]

gotta do channel combination

[slender mural]

i tried but this came up - then couldnt work it out

[steel crypt]

You're clicking the square button, click the circle button to the right of it.

[steel crypt]

You can also do this in pixelmath