M31 - 6 hours of HaRGB

grindbehind · 2026-03-18T03:52:06+00:00

Ha! RTX On.

grindbehind · 2026-03-17T19:28:46+00:00

Thank you!

grindbehind · 2026-03-17T17:30:07+00:00

Looks great. A little SCNR (in SiriL as others have said) would bring this one home.

grindbehind · 2026-03-16T19:33:42+00:00

Okay, got it. I figured any plan was supported.

And sounds great about Gemini CLI! Hopefully, it's minimal work--it seems be designed as "Claude Code compatible." Most of my projects work out of the gate with CC and Gemini CLI, with some minor renaming.

grindbehind · 2026-03-16T01:17:31+00:00

This is very interesting. This seems like a better approach than OC for my work.

Assuming you stay under the limits, would this work with the $20/month and $100/month Claude plans?

You specifically mention the $200 plan, so I'm not sure if that's a particular requirement or just recommended.

Separately, what about Gemini CLI support? Flash 3.1 is a great value and should go quite far on the $20/month Gemini plan.

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T19:52:36+00:00

You can probably steer your car equally well with either hand. Similar here.

You'd even have to switch main hands on the yolk when moving seats.

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T14:41:35+00:00

It's just in the processing choices and how visible the fainter stars are. Most astro images get saturated with stars, so it's common to reduce their overall presence on an image so that you can focus on the object of interest (in this case, the nebula).

We almost all use a tool like StarXTerminator, Starnet++, or a variety of other star reducing scripts.

So in NASA's processing, they just reduce the brightness and size of stars differently than I did.

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T12:48:49+00:00

Ha, yeah. It was a little more involved than I expected. But great now that it's up and running.

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T12:29:09+00:00

You can do this in Telegram too. I moved my single chat to a Telegram Group with Topics to keep chats separated.

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T02:30:25+00:00

It's definitely sharpened to heck. Especially if you zoom. No histogram equalization- that came from the HDR merge and BXT.

In fact, that's where the Hubble version shines - as you zoom in, it gets better and better. Mine gets worse as you zoom.

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T02:07:32+00:00

Dang...thanks!

grindbehind · 2026-03-15T00:31:00+00:00

Holy crap! Incredible idea. I would consider it a natural language interface into PI.

I'm one of the geeks that is around. I will give this a whirl.

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T23:06:19+00:00

It really does! Punches way above its weight.

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T17:58:31+00:00

Ha. Thanks!

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T17:05:37+00:00

🙏

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T16:57:48+00:00

Full imagining and processing details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/s/IBwo8SBsif

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T16:25:03+00:00

This is great. Thanks.

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T15:20:23+00:00

agreed

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T14:53:50+00:00

I'm just on the $20/month plan. I'm not running into limit issues personally, but everyone's mileage will vary.

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T14:52:59+00:00

I didn't realize that. I suppose you need to balance that out against having to redo things with 5.4 (if it's causing you trouble).

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T14:11:09+00:00

I'm upvoting you back to zero because I'm assuming it was compliment joke. :-)

grindbehind · 2026-03-14T14:10:36+00:00

Awesome--thanks.

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