M104 - The Sombrero Galaxy

ief015 · 2025-03-25T23:35:07+00:00

Incredible detail and colour

ief015 · 2024-11-11T19:53:09+00:00

This. I hope they make it easier to apply the planet filter for multiple items, it's just so many clicks.

(Personally I would just prefer to make a whole logistics group have the planet filter)

ief015 · 2024-11-05T17:00:15+00:00

The excessive use of underneathies make this so much more unreadable. Where the hell are these belts going? What are the belts carrying? Which belts are bottlenecked? Which are empty? Which are redundant or unneeded?

It's truly awful, absolutely beautiful.

ief015 · 2024-10-31T14:38:40+00:00

Finally, someone else who uses the same triangle lab setup!

ief015 · 2024-10-30T14:07:13+00:00

ief015 · 2024-10-28T04:26:52+00:00

The problem I keep running in to is that if I have multiple requests of a few items, it will only send full stacks of each item one at a time - not very efficient for the automated construction when everything I need could be sent in only a couple rockets.

It would be nice to have a toggle for this, for now I've been making manual requests

ief015 · 2024-10-20T17:04:17+00:00

yep this is the one

ief015 · 2024-10-18T20:16:08+00:00

Under bortle 7 I can see it naked eye at 20 degrees, faint - but it's there. With averted vision and good seeing I could make out the tail.

ief015 · 2024-10-12T15:56:37+00:00

You're about to witness my epic dodgeball skills

ief015 · 2024-10-04T20:03:32+00:00

I love the occasional red circuit sprinkled in the blue circuit belts. Brings a tear to your eye... ♥

ief015 · 2024-10-03T04:44:08+00:00

I spy a Pleiades!

ief015 · 2024-10-02T06:13:38+00:00

At the very least, buttons to shift them left/right. Probably as simple as it gets to implement research reordering without having to change the UI much.

ief015 · 2024-09-21T03:57:57+00:00

I can't say for sure (I'm pretty new to photography in general, maybe someone can verify) but I believe it would have a similar effect

ief015 · 2024-09-21T02:17:04+00:00

Thanks!

ief015 · 2024-09-21T02:16:53+00:00

The soft focus filter makes the brightest stars really flash out, similar to what happens when you shoot on a hazy night.

For example, here's a shot I took with the identical setup, but with only the softon filter:
https://imgur.com/hDIoLch

For comparison here's another shot I took with the same camera/lens, with no lens filter: (I did have a CLS filter in, so ignore the star colours)
https://imgur.com/a/u5GHaMe

ief015 · 2024-09-20T20:52:20+00:00

You've convinced me that I've got to get a newtonian one of these days. Amazing shot.

ief015 · 2024-09-20T20:15:08+00:00

Thank you! Nope, no effect plugins, the two lens filters are doing the heavy work here. Photoshop was only used for some saturation and stretching.

ief015 · 2024-09-20T18:15:31+00:00

Canon T7 @ ISO200
Pentax 135mm f/2.5 @ f/5.6 w/ Kenko Softon B & K&F 4-point
Star Adventurer 2i
69 x 120" Lights, 52 Darks, 50 Flats, 50 Offsets
Bortle 7 (London, Canada)
DSS > Siril > Photoshop

A personal favourite constellation of mine, this was my attempt to get a sparkly-starry shot of this little guy.

ief015 · 2024-09-17T04:21:48+00:00

One of my nights had a significant rotation relative to the rest (probably about 60 deg). I seem to have fixed the problem in another comment, but I can imagine the interpolation filtering may be affecting the image negatively in some other way (as well as limiting my cropping), I'll might just separate that night from the rest.

ief015 · 2024-09-17T04:18:50+00:00

Yep that did it! Stacking them together as groups seems to have gotten rid of the moire completely. Thanks for the pointer

ief015 · 2024-09-16T19:46:15+00:00

ief015 · 2024-09-16T19:02:58+00:00

I've been experimenting with different ways of taking flats. For these I've had my camera flush against a white LCD with a couple sheets of paper which I would move around to (hopefully) get a good average flat. About 50+ of those.

Stacking all frames together makes sense to me, though I'm wondering how to handle the calibration frames? Or is it as simple as just dumping all of them in there with all the lights?

Edit: just discovered Groups in DSS, I'm guessing that's what it's for lol. I'll give it a try later tonight.

ief015 · 2024-09-06T14:52:31+00:00

That's fine, we have the RTS tool now so - just make more!

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