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This is a wonderfully succinct description, Adam. Craig
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Okay, thanks. I understand your reasoning and it makes sense. Craig
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Fair enough. I very much do find value in your approach to presenting information and I appreciate you taking the time to clarify this situation Best regards,Craig
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Thanks very much for the response, but I am still a little confused... I think that I appreciate the point you are making about tweaking the measured PSF, and I would be in the group that might struggle to know what I am aiming for were I to choose …
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Adam, To follow onto this thread a bit, you have expressed dissatisfaction with deconvolution results based on a PSF generated from the image data. You mentioned concern with the calculated PSF in a segment on a different project, although in that …
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FWIW, I have a less than new MacBook Pro running Big Sur (11.5.2) and running PixInsight 1.8.8-8 Best regards,Craig Smith
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Adam, As a follow up, I installed the catalogs, and not too surprisingly, the results matched those that you shared. I want to bring out the differences in color; more blue in the arms yellow in the center, and at least some hints of brownish dust d…
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Adam, You are correct that I have not installed the local catalogs. I will go ahead and install them... maybe the SSD space they consume will help remind me to get some of my unprocessed data moved off my computer! In comparing the calibration resu…
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Attached is a freshly made RBG combination. The individual channels were touched up with MURE denoise before combination, but no other processing or balancing or anything. Actually, I couldn't seem to upload the xisf file; maybe it is too big? Here…
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Poking around a bit more and listening to your hints, I am guessing that my color sub frames are just underexposed at 10 minutes - at least for this target on those nights. I have to learn to do a better job of looking at image statistics while I …
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Sorry to not be more specific... And thanks very much for the reply. My rig is a TEC140 reduced with an AP quad TCC so that the scope is operating at about 705 mm at f/5. Sensor is a monochrome Sony sensor in a QSI690 with 4.54um pixels if I remem…
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Hi Adam, — “NB stuff will probably have to wait. It isn't really in my wheelhouse at the moment. However, I do spell out a technique a number of times in my tutorials that is good for star replacement... and *no one* does it. Perhaps there is a dra…