M81

[tall plaza]

This is about 33 hours of m81 and m82 data from my seestar s50. I have been having a hard time processing it.

idk im kinda thinking of just getting rid of the s50 at this point 😭

[proven light]

hmmm might try tomorrow

[unkempt holly]

I'm pretty sure you need to do HDR to make the galaxies have any details

Don't ask me how to do that though, idk how but I vaguely remember something about pixinsight? You can ask my friend @brittle viper he's still asleep tho

[tall plaza]

I tried that, I think I might just not be good at processing 😭

[unkempt holly]

33 hours is a bit overkill imo too 🙏

I'm actually imaging m81 and M82 right now

[tall plaza]

yeah i know i wanted to see how much i could get

seestar collective gets a boatload of hours so i thought it would help

[unkempt holly]

Seestar collective? What's that

[tall plaza]

basically a group of seestar owners that put all of their data together to make one big super image

its pretty cool

[unkempt holly]

Ohhhh I get it

Yeah that is cool

[tall plaza]

yeah they just got about 300 hours of m81 and 82 data

[unkempt holly]

Aw man the clouds just came in 💔

[unkempt holly]

DAMN

[tall plaza]

im excited to see what comes out of it

idk tho i might get rid of the s50 and get an s30 pro instead cuz im ngl i really dont like the zoomed in fov of the s50

[unkempt holly]

I think it's fine

You can always do a mosaic

Or even a panel by panel one (although you would have to do it manually which is tedious I bet)

[tall plaza]

yeah

it gets pretty annoying

[unkempt holly]

I was gonna get the s30 at first but then I got the s50

[tall plaza]

and the seestar app mosaic is weird

yeah idk i would only do it if i can manage to sell the s50

[unkempt holly]

Yeahh

I'm sure someone would buy one

[tall plaza]

might just go for a dedicated rig 😭

[unkempt holly]

You're gonna have to at some point 🤷‍♂️

[tall plaza]

i did just get a nice raise

[unkempt holly]

I couldn't even stack the subframes for this myself just because of how weird the way they take the mosaic is

[tall plaza]

yeah i genuinly dont understand why they do it like that

[unkempt holly]

Just do panels 😭

[tall plaza]

literally so innefficient to not do panels

[unkempt holly]

Like damn who the hell thought "oh yea let's make it go in a spiral"

[tall plaza]

slew to a different location after every frame 😭

[unkempt holly]

EQ mode is so good bro

Look at this amazing framing it got me

And no more field rotation too

[tall plaza]

yeah that is like the biggest upgrade you can do with a seestar

[unkempt holly]

I got mine just recently and I've been having a lot of fun with it

I also had to get a powerbank to get it to run all night

[tall plaza]

yeah i think i just suck at processing

[unkempt holly]

You will get better trust

As long as you keep taking and processing images you learn

[muted tapir]

nawww

dont

lol

[tall plaza]

Yeah I think I'm just crashing out lol

[muted tapir]

no worries

its peak sometime

[proven light]

i think i can really start to see a mini ifn there

not sure tho

[muted tapir]

here is an IFN reference image

should look like this

[proven light]

yeah ik i've processed some ifn m82 data

confirmed ifn around m81

really focused on the ifn but the galaxy looks cool!

[clever saffron]

Is it on discord?

[muted tapir]

are these ancient galaxies or denoising artifacts?

[proven light]

probably just stars tbf

didnt stretch the stars a lot so they very small

[muted tapir]

ohh

i am so done with blowing up M82

💔

[proven light]

lol

yeah m82 is pretty bright

even with masks i wasnt able to evade the explosion lol

[muted tapir]

fr its hard to get it right

[proven light]

yeah fr

[tall plaza]

Ye

[muted tapir]

lets do this lmfao

can i post this data here? @tall plaza

[tall plaza]

Lmaoo

if you wanna

[muted tapir]

aight les gooo

😊 ty

[indigo sapphire]

tried my best to get out most of cigars galaxies red out but kept over exposing the core

[quick axle]

had a quick go, tried to get atleat some of the IFN to show but not really something I know how to do properly

[unkempt holly]

It needs more data to not fry itself while you try to get IFN to show

[west cypress]

heres my go at it

[unkempt holly]

I neeeeed to know, How do you get the arms to be blue while the core is yellow 😭

[tall plaza]

I really like this one

[west cypress]

idk if you’re being serious, bit hard to tell. if you are, i just put a mask on the starless image and then boosted the saturation. i did boost the luminance a bit. there was a less yellow color.

now that i see it again i should’ve left the luminance as it was

[west cypress]

thanks!

[tall plaza]

How'd you process it? Siril or pix

[west cypress]

pix

i used to used siril until i finally decided to take the plunge and buy pix. night and day difference

[unkempt holly]

Sadly I am being serious 😔 but thanks for explaining I've never even used masks on my images (mostly bc idk how to but I'm sure I can do them in gimp)

[west cypress]

you definitely can use them in gimp. when you do, make sure to just focus on the galaxy itself.

when you boost the saturation it’ll only boost it on the galaxy itself. without the mask it’ll boost is to the entire picture which will end up looking a lot different

[unkempt holly]

Alright thanks for the help!! I'll try it out at some point

[west cypress]

no problem! happy to help

[mild copper]

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[urban comet]

I had a go at your file, and there is some IFN actually in your dataset. But what I can say is that you probably have some bad frames in the mix, as the overall stack feels "smooth" or lacking proper details, either due to bad seeing or some bad focused frames. But otherwise its a usable stack.

And a second version with a bit different approach

[urban comet]

That is also dependand on how you do your color calibration, as that sets the whole color tone for the galaxy

[vocal spindle]

yall are rly good at processiing i suck hahaha

[muted tapir]

brooo howwww?? 😭

is it even the same data?

[urban comet]

its the stack shared by the OP yes

[muted tapir]

ohhh

i see

lol

[west cypress]

hey we were all there at one point, all you can do is get better and better. practice makes perfect