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I'm definitely benefiting downloading the videos for offline use, it's very handy. It's more convenient for my style of learning. I hope that this will be carried over into the new website and course structures. Adam, maybe what you could do to help…
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Sounds like a great strategy. Definitely makes sense! Good to know. I agree, there is HEAPS of content to watch in both Fundamentals and Horizons. Further to what you mentioned, once you "launch" the new website, will you still add videos to Fundam…
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Sounds like an amazing course idea Adam! Further to what Edward said, would members of Horizons/Fundamentals be able to have access to the Deep Sky Academy course when it releases eventually, or would members have to purchase all future courses sepa…
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Sounds good, can't wait. I've finished watched the newer FastTrack Training videos for 2025, and they were all very good! I'm very impressed with the quality of the photos for both OSC and Monochrome. I felt the pacing was very good as well, as well…
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After sitting on it for a few days, I've re-thought that perhaps my initial post was too "direct". Apologies about that. I've been doing research my end anyway. All good. Zak
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After doing some thorough investigating, I can confirm that it is most likely StarNet2 producing these artifacts. Whenever I use StarXTerminator, it doesn't produce these artifacts. In fact, I think it may even remove them. The only trouble is when…
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It seems like it only appears whenever I use StarNet2, but even before star removal they are still there at times. Not sure what is going on. They could well be faint stars. I'll have a closer look at the light frames before stacking. May even debay…
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Thanks Adam. I shared those screenshots in case it would have helped. All good. In the use of NarrowbandNormalization instead of LinearFit, would I do it after DBE, and do I just choose the settings that I think are good? I will ensure to watch th…
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Awesome, thanks Adam. I've been playing around with NBColourMapper on my Ha channel from my dual-band image of NGC 6914. I am not sure if this is "correct", but I am inspired to try new things thanks to Narrowband FastTrack. I ended up using the ext…
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Good to know, thanks Adam! Yes it all makes sense now. :)
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Hi Adam, I hope this isn't coming across as a request per se, but I noticed in your NB FastTrack videos in the M16 workflow videos, the data was taken with the Askar D1 and D2 filters. Will there eventually be content in the course where you may cov…
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I don't think there is anything wrong with adding stuff all the time, especially with all the new updates coming out for PixInsight and new processes etc. I meant that lightly too lol. I totally get that content is created at your pace. :)
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Awesome! Up until it's release, I was anxiously counting down the days whilst watching the number of videos slowly grow lol. I will definitely be getting Narrowband FastTrack once I can afford it. I do have another question. Will you add more to it …
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Awesome, thanks for clarifying Adam. Regarding suggestions for content, I am interested to see how one can use the Ha channel in a dual-band image as a luminance layer and process it separately then integrate it back into the master image in the fi…
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Just an update, I went out and did some imaging last night and it was a success. I believe it might have been the USB cable causing issues, so I swapped it with another one, and I also believe it could have been my ZWO UV/IR Cut filter causing the r…
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All good Adam, thanks for your insights anyway. It makes sense now. I'll do more research about OSC dual-band processing. Maybe one day when I can afford it I will switch over to mono imaging.
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Ok. Sorry for the confusion Adam.. I'm trying to understand this myself lol. Upon examing the extracted RGB channels for both images, the Ha signal is stronger in my Optolong L-Ultimate data than it is with my Optolong L-eNhance data. Now that you h…
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Ok. The main wavelength I am interested in is the 3nm of the Optolong L-Ultimate. The Optolong L-eNhance has a much wider bandpass as it is a tri-band filter. I hope this answers your question. The main reason I wanted to try and incorporate these t…
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Here are the two screenshots showing my calibration tabs and folder naming. It wouldn't let me upload the lights and flats images for some reason. Not sure why.
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Thanks for clarifying Adam! As you suggested, I changed the folder names from IC434 to B33, and they are now grouping correctly. This was indeed the issue. I will have to test my other datasets and see if they work with this method. I am trying to a…