So, I have no idea what I'm doing, but this is my first "processed" image. Used ASTAP to stack, GraXpert to do GraXpert-y things, then some tweaking in Siril.
Suggestions and advice welcomed 🙂
#Cocoon Nebula
fossil timber
Now that is alot of stars
you might want to do some star reduction cause right now it is too clutered
dusky lotus
how do i do that ?
fossil timber
how do i do that ?
i think you can do it using starnet but i dont have it so here is what i got using gimp
you can find tutorials on youtube ( you should probably be using starnet++ but i can't my computer is too bad)
dusky lotus
u ran starnet on it and it removed ALL the stars 😛
ok, found a script to do it in Siril
umbral birch
also just so you know you can download and use pixinsight for 45 days for free, its a pain to get used to but its by far the best processing software out there
dusky lotus
i worry i will become too reliant on it after 45 days and will have to spend €300 😛
oh, turns out you can run it multiple times
umbral birch
i know that feeling all too well, I dont regret I think though 🙂
patent egret
Too many blacks clipped... rise exposure a bit remove noise and correct the color
dusky lotus
"correct the colour" how so ? i did the feature in Siril to correct it, and i denoised it with GraXpert
mighty granite
also just so you know you can download and use pixinsight for 45 days for free, ...
I wouldn't recommend that this early in the astrophotography way lol. Siril is also good, free, and less of a learning curve
umbral birch
I wouldn't recommend that this early in the astrophotography way lol. Siril is a...
yeh thats a fair point, getting flung into pixinsight is straight into the deep end i guess