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Continue reading →: PixInsight 1.9 Released
Pixinsight v1.9 was released this week, and the big update is Multiscale Gradient Correction. I’ve had some time to try it out now, and I’m massively impressed. It’s a game changing improvement in gradient removal. It really allowed me to bring out the details in the darker areas of the…
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Continue reading →: M13 – The Great Cluster in HerculesContinuing to go back over my older data with PixInsight, and I’m really happy with how this photo came out. This was a pretty light post process by astrophotography standards, a Graxpert background extraction, NoiseXTerminator & BlurXTerminator, color calibration, and stretching with GHS. That was it. I’m really happy with…
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Continue reading →: Markarian’s ChainI returned to another one of my earlier projects this week and took another try at processing. I’ve learned a lot since I started a year ago, and I’ve made the jump to PixInsight. This is Markarian’s Chain, a series of galaxies in the constellation Virgo that lie along a…
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Continue reading →: M51 – Finding all the Small GalaxiesI was reprocessing some older data, and I decided to go down the rabbit hole trying to find all the galaxies in the picture and how far away they are. I wasn’t able to find data on all of them, but it’s just mind-blowing to me that I was able…
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Continue reading →: Horsehead and Flame NebulaI completed 4 nights of capture on the Horsehead and Flame Nebula. That looks like all of the minimal moon weather I’m going to get this month, so I’ll probably be moving on from this target. In total, I collected for 5 nights, but one of the nights there were…
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Continue reading →: Getting Started on the Horsehead and Flame NebulaFinally getting to work on the Horsehead Nebula, this is another target I have wanted to see since I was a young child and learned about it at the Hayden Planetarium. This is a difficult target for several reasons. It has fairly high dynamic range, with a very bright star…
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Continue reading →: Reprocessing the Heart Nebula in False ColorWeather here in New Jersey has not been great for collecting data, so I spent some time reprocessing the Heart Nebula of a few weeks ago. I did a false color reprocessing, in a Hubble Palette, following the workflow laid out here. There are two basic reasons for the false…
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Continue reading →: Elephant Trunk NebulaAnother block of data from a busy October. Didn’t get nearly enough time on this target, but it’s falling too low in the west to be worth continuing this year. I remember learning about this when I was a young child at the Hayden Planetarium, so this target, along with…
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Continue reading →: M45 The Pleiades WorkflowI described some of the issues I had with the Pleiades in my last post, but I have now also made a short video illustrating the workflow. This was a very basic workflow based using mostly Siril with the Starnet plugin, and GraXpert. Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Shooting M45 During Cloudy NightsEarlier this month, in combination with the new moon we had three consecutive nights of ok kind of weather for astrophotography. Basically, the sky was cloudless for more than half the night, but clarity wasn’t the best. So I decided to shoot M45, since this is a target that I…






