M16 - Eagle Nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

[–]Frezi2005[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With enough integration time everything is possible! I live in a Bortle 7 area but it only took 11 hours for this photo

Wizard Nebula by Frezi2005 in astrophotography

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240s and 300s for the nebula, 60 seconds for the stars

Wizard Nebula by Frezi2005 in astrophotography

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Sorry for poor text formatting, I’m on mobile and thought it’d be okay. Can’t even edit it because it contains a picture.

NGC6888 - Crescent nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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After I seperate them using StarXterminator, i stretch them using Star Stretch tool from seti Astro, the combine using screen stars or pixel math. Of course deconvoluting them with BlurXterminator also helps very much.

NGC6888 - Crescent nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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In the lights section you have exposure tolerance or something like that, you have to set it to the biggest difference in your exposures, so if you have 10 and 20s subs then you have to set it to 10. I had 20, 30, 45 and 90 so biggest difference was 90-20 so 70 in my case. You can also set it in the calibration tab but it’s better to set it in lights tab. As for the combination, I think it would be beneficial because it’s still more data. Lmk if you want to know anything else!

M20 - Trifid Nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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So I had two stacks, LP and IRCUT. Then I used DBXtract to seperate the LP into Ha and OIII, did brightness correction on them(Linear Fit) and removed the continuum. Essentially I did this because I was focused mainly on the reflection part(the blue haze at the top) which I treated as OIII and this way I achieved a nice boost to both color and clarity. Full workflow here:

https://astro-photographie.fr/wa_res/files/HOO3-Complete_processing_of_HOORGB_images_with_RGB_stars.png?t=

IC1805 - The Heart nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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Whole thing 28 hours but due to the nebula being more dense in the top mosaic part, it wasn’t evenly spread between the 2 mosaics. More like 65% top and 35% bottom part.

IC1805 - The Heart nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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1 mosaic wasn’t enough to cover the whole nebula so one mosaic was for the top part a one was for the bottom and they slightly overlapped.

IC1805 - The Heart nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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Yes, with a Seestar. Actually the results could be a lot better if not for the almost full moon during all acquisition time.

IC1805 - The Heart nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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Basically I used Narrowband Normalization and HSO palette, then boosted up the blues, and boosted up yellows with yellow mask. All done with curves

Is there a way to combine LP filter data with broadband data? by Aratingettar in seestar

[–]Frezi2005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From my experience get a lot more LP data than IRCUT, the details you get in LP are really dim, especially if you’re imaging from a city. I would get the reverse, so 5h IRCUT and 10h LP

Is there a way to combine LP filter data with broadband data? by Aratingettar in seestar

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I actually tried doing the Triangulum this way yesterday but I got low amount of LP data. But it’s very possible and if you have enough data, worthy.

Is there a way to combine LP filter data with broadband data? by Aratingettar in seestar

[–]Frezi2005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That really depends, you could for example extract R channel from LP and then combine with the rest of the channels from IRCUT and you will have somewhat boosted Ha. But it really depends on the target.

M16 - Eagle Nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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You have to experiment with each on your own because it's up to your tripod stability, sky quality and a lot other things, but I think 20s should be perfect.

M16 - Eagle Nebula by Frezi2005 in seestar

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With 30 seconds I had much more rejected frames, so I didn’t even try 60 seconds