m101 2hr

[dull merlin]

hello ladys and gents. im still learning and this has been the longest attempt i have done. m101 with zwoasi294mc pro, skywatcher explorer 130p, 60x120s lights, 60 Dark flats, 60 Flats and 44 darks. would love to see if someone with Experience see what they can do iv tryed and its definitely better than me previous attempt.

[upbeat elbow]

Why's it only 10MB? Cropped?

Also, is it already streched?

Yeah sorry, its a weird file, seems to be already stretched and its very tinted purple straight out of the download

[lapis cargo]

i think you sent the already procesed file

[dull merlin]

sorry ill try again

[dull merlin]

sorry i will try again

[dull merlin]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mK63gjZGOIhDBH1w2njByepZC-tSgec?usp=drive_link

hopfully that works

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FE9vvMziktbUpoSOLDYdCbASpykR7QMG/view?usp=drive_link

[lapis cargo]

no permision to enter

[dull merlin]

How do I change that never shared anything before

[dull merlin]

i hhave done it to anyone with a linnk should work

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mK63gjZGOIhDBH1w2njByepZC-tSgec?usp=sharing

[lapis cargo]

now i got It

[lapis cargo]

man... what you have do to this first data?

[dull merlin]

Yeah it’s my first time doing lots of images like this and trying do calibration frames.

[dull merlin]

That’s a million times better than what I can get What did you use to get it look like that never thought it could get it like that

[lapis cargo]

Stacked with deep sky stacker and processed with siriL and Adobe photoshop Raw camera filter

[upbeat elbow]

I’ll give this a go tonight

[smoky matrix]

Heres my quick 10 min process of this data

Pretty decent honestly

did mess up with the gradient

but I was lazy and only used graxpert

also went a little too crazy with the deconvolution

A little softer this time

[upbeat elbow]

bro, people just want the master frame already stacked

[dull merlin]

My Apologies I know for next time. It’s my first time doing this

[dull merlin]

That’s great I need a lot more practice did you use photoshop or pixinsight etc ?

[smoky matrix]

Pixinsight

[dull merlin]

I’ll have to try this one thank you

[simple pawn]

Pix is running now, i am curious what i can do.

[simple pawn]

Here you go quick one

With stars.

[upbeat elbow]

Please can you send me the stack?

[simple pawn]

i can

[simple pawn]

Here both Tiff and for PI: https://we.tl/t-JP1Fcecz9V

[upbeat elbow]

thank you

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This is my effort. Idk how people get out the blues

@honest shuttle I've probably asked this question before, but how on earth do I get out the blues?? I'm literally only saturating blues and not seeing a difference.

[honest shuttle]

Well you can’t saturate blues if there are no blues to saturate, you need to colour calibrate better (it’s well off, stars aren’t all orange) or strange the blues in histogram with masks

[upbeat elbow]

I used spcc, and other people above got the blues

[honest shuttle]

Before or after DBE? Did you run the correct settings?

[upbeat elbow]

Before

Default settings I think

sorry 'pcc

[honest shuttle]

You need to run it after

[upbeat elbow]

nonop i meant DBE before pcc

[honest shuttle]

Ahh, PCC sucks are colour calibration lol

U using pix?

[upbeat elbow]

ye

[honest shuttle]

Try background neutralisation and then standard colour calibration, no previews/background references

[upbeat elbow]

How can I do CC with no previews?

[honest shuttle]

Just apply it lol, don’t add any previews

Drag the triangle onto the image and it’ll apply

[upbeat elbow]

So DBE, then BN then CC?

[honest shuttle]

Yep

If that don’t work you’d need to mask up later in the processing and get the colours out manually

[upbeat elbow]

How's that done?

[honest shuttle]

Hard to explan

[upbeat elbow]

nvm

What to put in reference image on BN

[honest shuttle]

Don’t

Just apply

[upbeat elbow]

okay, it didnt change anything rllyu

[honest shuttle]

That’s fine, now run colour calibration

No reference image either

[upbeat elbow]

Yep done

[honest shuttle]

Any change?

[upbeat elbow]

Now I usually stretch with histogram trans bcz i dont understand curves, then just use colour saturation

[honest shuttle]

It’s better, still could use some blue curves with masks, but you’d need to run starnet, stretch etc etc, make some masks with RangeSelection and stretch the blues and a little bit of green

[upbeat elbow]

Yeah i usually do starnet too. How can I individially stretch blues?

I usuallt do somet like this

[honest shuttle]

Histogram, near the bottom click the blue box, and stretch

[honest shuttle]

That’s saturation not stretching

[upbeat elbow]

ohh

[upbeat elbow]

histogram transformation?

[honest shuttle]

Yep, or curves whichever’s easiest, but again don’t do it without masks etc otherwise you’ll make everything blue not what your trying to make blue

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So mask the galaxy only?

[honest shuttle]

Yep

[upbeat elbow]

and this is before a full stretch?

[honest shuttle]

No after

[dull merlin]

these are all amazing guys this is my first image thats gone over 1hour i have been trying to get anything half this good but cant

[simple pawn]

Try this file it is after Grayxpert has auto stretch zo jou have to stretch you self:https://we.tl/t-Zmb5HkiMhF

[simple pawn]

i did Grayxpert, crop, BlurXT, NoiseXT, Image solver, PCC, StarXT, on galaxy then stretch, colorsaturation(mask) enz. it is intuitive trail and error. Will take time.

Here i overcooked it on the third try, just keep trying.

[dull merlin]

Awesome thanks will take a look. Is that pixinsight

[simple pawn]

yep

Anyway this object is not the easiest starter object very faint try M42, and other nebula, now in galaxy season M51, and others :https://telescopius.com/