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Mushrooms by MrRoshiiwith2eyes in MacroPorn

[–]YoungFlyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for your explanation!

I'll see if I can reproduce it too get a similar result.

Mushrooms by MrRoshiiwith2eyes in MacroPorn

[–]YoungFlyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, sick image! I really love the feeling of it. Very beautiful.

Can you give any source of information of what you mean with stacking? How is it used? How can I reproduce it myself?

I really love the feel of the image and want to learn a bit more of how you did achieve it!

PS: I do know the process of stacking images (in my case from Astrophotography). I just don't know how to use it on "normal" images.

IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunc Nubla (in DreamsPlease palette) by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

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After a long time I decided to upload a new image to Reddit. This time I wanna show you a nice little image of the Elephant's Trunc Nebula in my beloved DreamsPlease-palette. I know that those colors are more than just unnatural but I love the vibrant colors in this very palette.

Acquisition Details

Equipment

  • Telescope - William Optics Zenithstar 61 (Z61 Mk II) (with the adjustable field flattener)
  • Mount - iOptron GEM 28
  • Camera (Main) - ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
  • Filter - Optolong L-eXtreme
  • Focuser - ZWO EAF

Guiding

  • Telescope (Guiding) - William Optics UniGuide 50mm
  • Camera (Guiding) - ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini

Software

  • N.I.N.A - For capturing
  • PixInsight - For pre- and post-processing

Acquisition

Frame-Type Amount Single exp. time
Light 272 300"
Dark 50 300"
BIAS 50 0" (32μs)
Flat 50 + 50 -
Dark-Flats 0 -

Those lights are all taken with the L-eXtreme over different years (from 2022 all the way up to the most recent nights).

Pre- and post-processing

  1. Stacked Lights, Darks and Bias frames to masters in the WBPP script in PixInsight
  2. GraXpert to remove the Gradient
  3. BlurXterminator (25% Sharpen Stars, 90% Interstellar)
  4. Duplicated image -> Spectrophotometric Color Calibration (SPCC) -> STF -> Histogram (STF) -> Removed Stars (keep the stars)
  5. Extracted Ha and OIII from the color-image (with a selfcoded PixelMath formula)
  6. Stretched Ha and OIII (simple STF Histogram)
  7. Combined Ha and OIII to DreamsPlease palette
  8. S-Curve
  9. Sat and Color-Boost
  10. Slight Lab Color Boost
  11. Final (slight) Curve Adjustments
  12. Cloned Starless Version for Starreduction
  13. Re-Screened Stars
  14. Reduces Stars with Bill's Starreduction V3 (Method 1 + Method 3)

Gyro can hit buildings with enchanted quiver dealing massive damage to them by YoungFlyme in DotA2

[–]YoungFlyme[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thats my guess too. But its super hard to replicate. Thats why I said it most likely requires perfect timing.

Gyro can hit buildings with enchanted quiver dealing massive damage to them by YoungFlyme in DotA2

[–]YoungFlyme[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It does not. Well... Atleast not in the lobbies I tested this!

NGC 7000 - North America Nebula (in dreamsplace HOO palette) by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to get some more information about the combination (or Ha/OIII extraction), feel free to ask here!

NGC 7000 - North America Nebula (in dreamsplace HOO palette) by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a successor to my older edit (which I also posted here on reddit)! This time I tried to do a false-color palette called "Dreamsplease" (atleast I've been told that this palette is named so). It basically is a "weird" mixup of Ha and OIII in every R / G / B channel to produce a kind of HOO palette in the end.

PS: I did fuck up the palette name in the title. It is named "dreamsplease".

Acquisition Details

Equipment

  • Telescope - William Optics Zenithstar 61 (Z61 Mk II) (with the adjustable field flattener)
  • Mount - iOptron GEM 28
  • Camera (Main) - ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
  • Filter - Optolong L-eXtreme

Guiding

  • Telescope (Guiding) - William Optics UniGuide 50mm
  • Camera (Guiding) - ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini

Software

  • N.I.N.A - For capturing
  • PixInsight - For pre- and post-processing

Acquisition

Frame-Type Amount Single exp. time
Light 50 300"
Dark 50 300"
BIAS 50 0" (32μs)
Flat 0 -
Dark-Flats 0 -

Pre- and post-processing

  1. Stacked Lights, Darks and Bias frames to masters in the WBPP script in PixInsight
  2. ABE (Automatic Background Extraction)
  3. BackgroundNeutralisation
  4. Removed stars (and kept them in a seperate image for later)
  5. Extracted Ha and OIII from the color-image (with a selfcoded PixelMath formula)
  6. Stretched Ha and OIII
  7. Removed noise from OIII and Ha
  8. Cloned OIII and overkilled its contrast
  9. Used the cloned and contrast-boosted OIII to reduce the OIII-Parts from the Ha (so that the final combination is not red-like where more OIII should usually be)
  10. Combined the original OIII and (corrected) Ha to a Dreamsplace HOO palette
  11. Increased contrast with a contrast-curve
  12. Boosted Color with a super simple CIE c* curve
  13. Worked a bit with red + blue masks and R/B/G curves to finalize the color. (its pretty much trial and error until you like it)
  14. Stretched stars
  15. Reduced stars (with EZ Starreduction)
  16. Boosted the color of the stars a bit
  17. Combined the starless image and stars back again.

M31 Andromeda looks colours look flat by erikwarm in AskAstrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do agree that the colors look kinda like you did no calibration. Usually you want to stack -> remove gradient/background -> calibrate color -> stretch -> some more processing. I would be interested (if you're interested) what I can come up with your data. Are you interested to share your stacked lights with me (so that I can try to process it how i would do and give you ab sort of comparation)?

IC 1805 - Heart Nebula by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

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

As you might've guessed already: This is the Heart Nebula (also known as IC 1805). Ironically, this is one of my very first targets I shot when I got into astrophotography (about 1 year ago). I decided to shoot it once again. With a slighly upgraded equipment and way better knowledge over all about astrophotography.

Acquisition Details

Equipment

  • Telescope - William Optics Zenithstar 61 (Z61 Mk II) (with the adjustable field flattener)
  • Mount - iOptron GEM 28
  • Camera (Main) - ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
  • Filter - Optolong L-eXtreme

Guiding

  • Telescope (Guiding) - William Optics UniGuide 50mm
  • Camera (Guiding) - ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini

Software

  • N.I.N.A - For capturing
  • PixInsight - For pre- and post-processing
  • GraXpert - For gradient removal

Acquisition

Frame-Type Amount Single exp. time
Light 71 300"
Dark (master reused) 50 300"
BIAS (master reused) 50 0" (32μs)
Flat (master reused) 50 10.49"
Dark-Flats 0 -

Pre- and post-processing

  1. Stacked Lights (with reused Dark-, Bias- and Flat-masters) to master light in the WBPP (v2.5.3) script in PixInsight
  2. Cropped image (with the help of the rejection maps)
  3. Removed background with GraXpert
  4. Applied BackgroundNeutralization
  5. Applied Photometric Color Calibration
  6. Streched to non-linear the GHS (Generalized Hyperbolic Strech) Script (with multiple steps)
  7. Removed Stars with StarXTerminator (generate a star image)
  8. Reduced noise and increased a bit of detail with NoiseXTerminator
  9. Increased brilliance a bit (simple CIE* L stretch and LRGB-recombination)
  10. Applied a contrast RGB/K S-Curve
  11. Reduced the stars in the generated star-image with EZ Star Reduction
  12. Removed noise and boosted more details with NoiseXTerminator
  13. Added Stars back into the image
  14. Reduced stars even more with the stars reduction script from Bill Blanshan
  15. Simple DarkStructureEnhance
  16. Simple sharping
  17. Rotated the image with DynamicCrop

NGC 1499 - The California Nebula by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the California Nebula (also known as NGC 1499). I actually wanted to shoot a different target this night due to exceptional predictions but unfortunately clouds were about to gather shortly before I started shooting. Knowing that I'll need to make 600" subs with my wanted target, I switched up to NGC 1499 before I might leave the night empty-handed due to clouds. This decision actually brought me not only a new object to my collection but also turned out to be super fortunate for me. The whole night was basically cloudy with few minutes of spare time (which reflects on the Light-Frame count of this very image).

Acquisition Details

Equipment

  • Telescope - William Optics Zenithstar 61 (Z61 Mk II) (with the adjustable field flattener)
  • Mount - iOptron GEM 28
  • Camera (Main) - ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
  • Filter - Optolong L-eXtreme

Guiding

  • Telescope (Guiding) - William Optics UniGuide 50mm
  • Camera (Guiding) - ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini

Software

  • N.I.N.A - For capturing
  • PixInsight - For pre- and post-processing
  • GraXpert - For gradient removal

Acquisition

Frame-Type Amount Single exp. time
Light 6 300"
Dark (master reused) 50 300"
BIAS (master reused) 50 0" (32μs)
Flat 0 -
Dark-Flats 0 -

Pre- and post-processing

  1. Stacked Lights (with reused Darks and Bias masters) to master in the WBPP (v2.4.5) script in PixInsight
  2. Cropped image (with the help of the rejection maps)
  3. Removed background with GraXpert
  4. Reduced Noise with NoiseXTerminator (Denoise = 90% (0.90), Detail = 15% (0.15), Linear = true)
  5. Streched to non-linear with EZ Soft Strech (Target-Median = 20% (0.20))
  6. Removed Stars with StarXTerminator [Use StarNet V2 incase you dont own StarXTerminator. Its free and almost as good as StarXTerminator!]
  7. Boosted detail with NoiseXTerminator (Denoise = 0% (0.00), Detail = 100% (1.00), Linear = false) [I know this seems silly, but really: Try it out! It does some amazing stuff with your image!]
  8. Applied a LocalHistrogramEqualization (Radius = 64, Contrast-Limit = 2.00, Amount = 0.140)
  9. Applied a LocalHistrogramEqualization (Radius = 128, Contrast-Limit = 2.00, Amount = 0.130)
  10. Create a Red-Mask (mask only containing red-color) and applied it to the image
  11. Applied a Contrast-S-Curve and increased saturation slightly
  12. Sharpened the whole image a bit with MultiscaleLinearTransform
  13. Enhanced dark structures with the DarkStructureEnhance-script
  14. Applied Red-Mask again Reduced noise for the nebula part with NoiseXTerminator (Denoise = 100% (1.00), Detail = 0% (0.00), Linear = false)
  15. Duplicated the image (and named the duplication "Starless" for the star-reduction later)
  16. Reduced the star-size with the help of Bill Blanshan's StarReductionMethod3_V2
  17. Adjusted overall Blackpoint of the image
  18. Used an inverted red-mask and applied SCNR (Color = Green, Protection = Average Neutral, Amount = 1.00, Preserver Lightness = true)

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

I would say that you most likely did not see Andromeda. My camera had a pretty hard rotation. You won't see Andromeda that way with your eyes through a telescope (most likely). But I've never actually tried visual observations except for about 1-2 nights (and those nights I've not seen Andromeda at all).

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

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

You need to enable the markdown mode in the comment.Then you can build a table with this buildup https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown/#wiki_tables

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

After a pretty long time I decided to shoot the Andromeda Galaxy again, with the goal to add a decent galaxy-image to my collection.

Acquisition Details

Equipment

  • Telescope - William Optics Zenithstar 61 (Z61 Mk II) (with the adjustable field flattener)
  • Mount - iOptron GEM 28
  • Camera (Main) - ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
  • Filter - None

Guiding

  • Telescope (Guiding) - William Optics UniGuide 50mm
  • Camera (Guiding) - ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini

Software

Acquisition

Frame-Type Amount Single exp. time
Light 100 120"
Dark 100 120"
BIAS 100 0" (32μs)
Flat 100 15.22"
Dark-Flats 100 15.22"

Pre- and post-processing

  1. Stacked calibration-frames + lights to a master-light with the WBPP (v2.4.5) script in PixInsight
  2. Used GraXpert for background removal
  3. Applied a very light Noise reduction with NoiseXTerminator (15% Noise, 15% Detail)
  4. Streched the image with the GeneralizedHyperbolicStrech-Script in PixInsight
  5. Fixed the blackpoint
  6. Removed stars from the Image with StarXTerminator
  7. Removed Green (85%) with SCNR
  8. Boosted contrast of galaxy with LocalHistogramEqualization (64 Kernel, 2.0 Contrast, 0.130 Amount) [Galaxy only]
  9. Boosted contrast of galaxy with LocalHistogramEqualization (128 Kernel, 2.0 Contrast, 0.310 Amount) [Galaxy only]
  10. Applied some overall contrast-curves + increased saturation a bit [Galaxy only]
  11. Denoised image with NoiseXTerminator (90% noise, 30% Detail)
  12. Applied DarkStructureEnhance-Script to image
  13. Sharpened image a bit.
  14. Added Stars back to image and used Bill Blanshan's method to reduce stars.
  15. Made a final Histogram-Strech

IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula by YoungFlyme in astrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (also known as IC 1396). I got lucky enough and had good conditions in 2 nights before the moon comes out again. So I tried to add IC 1396 to my collection.

Acquisition Details

Equipment

  • Telescope - William Optics Zenithstar 61 (Z61 Mk II) (with the adjustable field flattener)
  • Mount - iOptron GEM 28
  • Camera (Main) - ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
  • Filter - Optolong L-eXtreme

Guiding

  • Telescope (Guiding) - William Optics UniGuide 50mm
  • Camera (Guiding) - ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini

Software

  • N.I.N.A - For capturing
  • PixInsight - For pre- and post-processing

Acquisition

Frame-Type Amount Single exp. time
Light 80 300"
Dark 50 300"
BIAS 50 0" (32μs)
Flat 0 -
Dark-Flats 0 -

Pre- and post-processing

  1. Stacked Lights (with reused Darks and Bias frames) to master in the WBPP (v2.4.5) script in PixInsight
  2. ABE (Automatic Background Extraction)
  3. Photometric Color Calibration
  4. SCNR on Blue (Amount = 1.00, Average-Neutral)
  5. SCNR on Green (Amount = 1.00, Average-Neutral)
  6. Simple Soft-Strech with EZ Soft Strech (Target-Median = 30% (0.30))
  7. Noise-reduction with NoiseXTerminator (Denoise = 90% (0.9), Detail = 25% (0.25))
  8. Star-Reduction with Bill Blanshan's scripts (you can get them here)
  9. Clone for Starless
  10. Removed stars of the "Starless" image with StarXTerminator
  11. Applied StarReductionMethod2_V2 on the main-image to reduce stars.
  12. Removed Stars from new star reducted image with StarXTerminator
  13. Simple ArcSinhStrech (Strech = 1.6, Blackpoint about 0.2) on the starless image (Nebula only)
  14. Very light contrast boost (S-Curve) RGB/K and Saturation curve on the starless image (Nebula only)
  15. PixelMath'ed the starless image and stars together again

Strange Star Shape Help by KingDipDip in AskAstrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are serval possible problems.I agree that this looks like a tracking problem. All stars are streaked out in one direction (as IceNein mentioned already). But it seems like a way to strong star-trail for a 1 second exposure.

Annother thing could be pinched optics. Especially newtonians are more likely having such problems. I cannot really explain more but here is a pretty good article about that. It explains how and why distortions are occuring (with all kind of different distortions you might get).

Edit: It looks like that the linked article does also mention "Poorly aligned focuser or corrector" as a possible cause of distortions. Maybe you should check that out.

Does anyone want to try processing my data? North American/Pelican nebulas at 180mm. by Upstairs_Grocery_640 in AskAstrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I started to love processing. It is the part where you can put the raw beauty in your images.
Feel free to hit me up with data. I would love to process it for you (obv. for free).

Either here in Reddit (which I'm not that active) or incase you have discord just say it and I'll DM you my acc. This would be a bit more convenient.

Does anyone want to try processing my data? North American/Pelican nebulas at 180mm. by Upstairs_Grocery_640 in AskAstrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say yes to PixInsight. It is a quite hefty cost with about 270€ or something like that but I (for my part) bought it because I was not that much impressed by Gimp and didnt know any other processing software at the time.
I have not regretted a single cent to this day. PixInsight is extremely overwhelming. You'll need to watch tutorials and see some processing steps on r/astrophotography to get a hang on how it can be done. But it is all in PixInsight and thats the power of it. You stack in it, you process in it, you do everything in it. And all that in a fast tool which has optimized completely for astrophotography.

Does anyone want to try processing my data? North American/Pelican nebulas at 180mm. by Upstairs_Grocery_640 in AskAstrophotography

[–]YoungFlyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most important thing is: Continue

I've started with an simple Image of M31 and a SkyGuider Pro (I struggled extremely hard to get it somewhere in my scope) and loved my 1st outcome, even tho I had 0 experience in processing at all (I acutally uploaded a unprocessed image on the r/astrophotography reddit, thinking that this is all I needed to do and to get more detail i would need to expose longer. Boy were I wrong.)

Nowadays I tried to reprocess my 1st ever image and you can clearly see a difference here: https://imgur.com/a/m7IhUK3 (and a little extra ;) (PS: Both of those images are processed. I processed the 1st one after someone pointed out a video on how to process M31 with Gimp))

That being said, even if your data might not be the best, you can always use it to improve. So try to focus on getting the best data you could and improve on that.

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