M66 shot on a 14 inch dob

[dusky nova]

Messier 66
Imaged with a Sony A7 MK1 & Orion XX14G GoTo 14 Inch Dob

700 30' 800 iso subs
64 30' 800 iso darks
64 bias

stacked and processed in siril along with gimp

[sonic igloo]

looks a bit

[candid hawk]

Raw Stack please I wanna make it look incredible

[candid hawk]

Heck yeah, thank you

[dusky nova]

my background extraction violated the colors

[candid hawk]

Yeah looks like its got some stacking settings errors, but overall not too shabby for an A7I

[dusky nova]

i gotta fix the script because its not rejecting sloppy frames

[dusky nova]

what software are you using to stack, i cannot get background to not screw up everything up

sorry process*

[candid hawk]

pixinsight, siril. Smoothening set to 1.

I do BX and DSNR (if applicable) -> Siril, GHS, ASineT, CC, BGE

[dusky nova]

ok did better now

[candid hawk]

Clipping your darks

you need to have more agressive smoothening, set it to 0.25, 60+ samples

[dusky nova]

🫡

[candid hawk]

and use this, I put it through BlurX

[dusky nova]

awesome, thanks for your help, its people like you who make this hobby enjoyable

[candid hawk]

I try not to be like the people that taught me (arseholes)

[dusky nova]

Darn arseholes

[dusky nova]

This is what I got

[candid hawk]

Ye, biggest issue you have with your processing is that you pull the black point too close to the histogram ADU zone (that hill thing), to help mitigate that, don't push the data too hard, and try to keep the black point away from the start of the hill- space is black, but not pitch black

You see that I let it be a super dark shade of grey vs pitch black in my processing