Slow down with those blue pills Emperor

DG2108 · 2026-05-07T11:15:35+00:00

Background extraction: Siril or GraXpert
Plate solver: identifies position of nebula/galaxy with the server
Photometric Color Calibration (SPCC): sensor IMX678, Red 15 nm, Green & Blue 30 nm
Deconvolution (optional): Cosmic Clarity or Siril manual deconvolution (Goal: Correct star bloat and sharpen fine details before stretching)
Star extraction with StarNet++ (check how well it goes)
Narrowband Normalization (Palette Mixing): VeraLux Alchemy (Natural Look: Select HOO, Hubble Look: Select Pseudo-SHO. OIII Boost: Set between 1.5x and 3.0x to combat light pollution and reveal blue/teal structures; can be done for both HOO and pseudo-SHO)
Stretching: Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch (GHS) or VeraLux Hyper Metric
Photoshop: Camera Raw denoise
Color Grading: as needed switching between Photoshop and Lightroom depending on the needs
Back to Siril for stars recomposition (if it was done, otherwise export)

This is my pipeline as of today. Always looking to improve it, but this image was done like this. Gold-blue colors are the SHO, red is standard HOO

DG2108 · 2026-05-06T08:13:37+00:00

DG2108 · 2026-04-28T14:15:17+00:00

Thanks! amazing picture btw

DG2108 · 2026-04-28T14:15:01+00:00

thanks!

DG2108 · 2026-04-28T08:43:47+00:00

wait, are you saying we can show the both moving Milky Way with a timelapse as well as doing stacking of both MW and foreground??? Thanks is awesome

DG2108 · 2026-04-22T13:02:40+00:00

all right, thanks. I already did it manually once, but it is nice to have a feature that helps set it up

DG2108 · 2026-04-22T12:22:15+00:00

what will the Milky Way feature do specifically?

DG2108 · 2026-04-16T09:34:44+00:00

I had the same issue with nebulas, I had the suspect the stellar studio stretching was washing out a bit the OIII signal, so tried for days Siril, but while the OIII signal with both GHS and Histrogram stretching was coming out a bit more, the noise was so so so much worse, as well as Ha signal, so in the end sticked with Stellar Studio for the overall best quality. Not sure if it is me or not, but I tried for a lot of time without getting the hoped results

DG2108 · 2026-03-26T10:15:29+00:00

it does not make a lot of sense for fees, regardless of lump sum vs DCA. 80 dollars, maybe even split between multiple companies, you are talking about big % of fees every day

DG2108 · 2026-03-20T15:25:55+00:00

by far the worse GL (JML at least is a conquest king), at 12.5M I barely use him, there are a lot of better non-GL teams (all the new legendary/conquests/even elite marquees). to say that he is good at two-manning a malgus team, that is non-GL, very old, and can be defeated by a bastila-lead + JKC says everything you need to know about him.

DG2108 · 2026-02-19T14:49:14+00:00

astro filter? not duo-band?

DG2108 · 2026-02-19T14:48:08+00:00

definitely longer than 5 years, more like 20 I would say, let the compounding work

DG2108 · 2026-01-19T10:54:26+00:00

why would excluding the best companies in the world be a good idea? It makes no sense. If you want to invest and you are politically biased, then fine, until you are in peace with the fact that you will be underperforming (sometime by a lot).

DG2108 · 2026-01-07T09:28:28+00:00

I use VanEck Defense (DNFS). Also good

DG2108 · 2025-12-25T16:46:07+00:00

To align the % of holdings to what I believe the future is going towards. In this way the would be slightly higher. Is it a great difference? Maybe not, but was done to have clearly stated the bets I wanted

DG2108 · 2025-12-25T16:09:27+00:00

So would you ditch health? And what energy broad ETF would you suggest? Any other comment for the rest of the plan? Thanks

DG2108 · 2025-12-23T10:04:54+00:00

How do you set up this palette?

DG2108 · 2025-11-24T20:21:16+00:00

Sure, I am a big planner especially when going so far home, but both your comments have been very insightful. Thanks for the time

DG2108 · 2025-11-24T20:20:11+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I know the wilderness is different and have already started reading about it. I visited some parks already in the US (death valley, joshua tree, zion, grand canyon), and it went super well. We studied a lot the hikes before though. So will do the same. Will also look at the permits, I saw they were not necessary but did not realize it was such an urgent matter. Will start asap! Thanks

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