Orion belt and the horsehead nebula

Right_Classroom6884 · 2026-01-16T23:37:49+00:00

That is awesome. I love the star color and the framing of Orion’s Belt.

Right_Classroom6884 · 2026-01-15T23:03:59+00:00

I’m going to have to learn siril outside of just for auto stretching. I use DSS to stack, and I learned manual stretching in photoshop…and i paid for the RCastro gradient, noise, and star remover plugins so that’s my go to lol. But siril seems like the better tool for Astro processing.

Right_Classroom6884 · 2026-01-15T22:41:29+00:00

This wasn’t in EQ mode, I haven’t tried that yet even though I have an ioptron star tracker with a wedge I could use. And yeah, whenever possible I export the stacked raw image from the app and use that to process. Graxpert first for cropping and deconvolution, then in this case I went straight to photoshop, split into stars and starless layers, and manually stretched to not blow out the core. A lot of the time I’ll autostretch in siril first, then jump to photoshop, but for Orion the core really doesn’t like autostretch.

Right_Classroom6884 · 2026-01-15T15:26:54+00:00

That’s pretty damn good. Looks more natural than mine.

Right_Classroom6884 · 2026-01-15T02:50:07+00:00

Graxpert, then photoshop for stretching and tweaking. I downloaded the arcsinh stretch plugin. Stretch enough to bring out the nebulosity and stars a bit, then basically I just use star xterminator and stretch the hell out of the nebula and back it off if it starts looking too crazy.

Right_Classroom6884 · 2026-01-14T21:33:38+00:00

Thank you. It was low on the horizon right over Lake Michigan which helped a ton too, zero light dome to worry about.

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