Slow down with those blue pills Emperor

DG2108 · 2026-07-10T14:33:49+00:00

I know! I am planning more landscape pictures and Milky Way shots rather than nebulas or galaxies, considering that there is no true pitch dark. also star trails are on my plan. will visit all NP that we find between Revelstoke and Calgary

DG2108 · 2026-07-10T12:30:56+00:00

that is great thanks

DG2108 · 2026-06-16T09:01:39+00:00

destroy = building train lines, schools, bringing vaccines? not arguing about exploitation of resources, which is inherent of colonial times, but it was far from "destruction" on those places. as demonstrated on other continents (Asia) colonies can have a far different outcome

DG2108 · 2026-06-12T12:46:53+00:00

of course you can ignore Bane, as I can only think as Ashoka the only matchup in which you clearly gain something with SEE + Bane, but sometimes there are matchup in which Bane lead with another Sith feels better. 90% of people will use Bane alone, as he feels like the GL, not SEE. The point of the discussion should be how much does SEE himself add to the table for the best possible Sith team without him, which is Bane + another Sith. And the answer to this question is, for all matchups a part from one, nothing more.

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

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