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Using "Astrophotography Lab" to Determine Optimum Exposure Time

Last post by bobharmony « Sun Jan 19, 2020 3:01 am
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by STEVE333 » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:42 pm
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Astrophotography Lab is a free program that can be used to determine the noise characteristics of your camera/telescope combination including the...

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Sorry you are having so much trouble with the AVX, JT. Since I tweaked the gear mesh for DEC and RA on the ASGT, I toss about 1 sub in 25 (knocks...
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Sun Jan 19, 2020 3:01 am
Astrophotography Lab - A Limited Overview

Last post by UlteriorModem « Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:18 am
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by STEVE333 » Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:36 am
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Astrophotography Lab is a free program (Windows or Linux) that can be used to determine the magnitude of the noise sources in your astrophotography...

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Anchor post is the first post that started the thread :)

Thanks I remembered to bookmark it.

I did follow that tutorial pretty much to the letter...
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Last post by UlteriorModem
Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:18 am
Keeping the diffraction spikes in a final image

Last post by UlteriorModem « Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:09 pm
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by jazzin » Sun Jan 12, 2020 7:05 pm

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I use PixInsight to process my images and It seems every star cluster I've imaged, the diffraction spikes get killed during processing but I would...

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Try changing the high sigma rejection on stacking.

This, also maybe turn off large scale pixel rejection.

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Last post by UlteriorModem
Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:09 pm
List of AP software applications

Last post by Graeme1858 « Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:33 am
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by Kanadalainen » Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:59 pm

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Hello all,

I'm getting my feet wet in astro photography and was curious as to the extent of applications out there. I have been trying some...

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I'm too over-wrought and brain-fried

That doesn't sound good!!!

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Last post by Graeme1858
Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:33 am
Can you have too many images to stack?

Last post by maceemiller « Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:15 am
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by maceemiller » Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:35 am

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Hi all.

Just a quick question. I've 294 X 1 second images of the Orion nebula taken at 800 ISO on my DSLR taken at 200mm (I've no tracking on my...

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Could you upload a hand full of raw files.

I will when I get in from work

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Last post by maceemiller
Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:15 am
StarTools color fix

Last post by SKEtrip « Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:31 am
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by SKEtrip » Sat Jan 11, 2020 11:21 pm

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With several inches of snow on .2 of ice I'm just practicing processing with some old shots.
Came across this image of the moon. One of the first...

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Well done. I'm not a particular fan of green cheese. I usually scrape the green parts off.

A prudent course of action!
Thanks!
Yep, StarTools...

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Last post by SKEtrip
Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:31 am
Pixinsight, update rant!

Last post by Stuart « Sat Jan 11, 2020 6:24 pm
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by UlteriorModem » Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:04 pm

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So I ran into a few 'glitches' in PI that allegedly have been corrected in more recent versions. I had not updated since May of last year.

Evidently...

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I went on the website yesterday, and you're right, it was slow. They must be having server issues.

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Last post by Stuart
Sat Jan 11, 2020 6:24 pm
Advanced PixInsight course to be held March 2020 in Buffalo

Last post by Stuart « Sat Jan 11, 2020 4:15 pm
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by Stuart » Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:07 pm

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Hi all,
Warren Keller is having an advanced PI course in Buffalo on March 14-15, if you're interested

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Hey Yobbo,
In this class Warren and Ron assume people know the basics of PI. It's an advanced class.

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Last post by Stuart
Sat Jan 11, 2020 4:15 pm
Aligning R G B images

Last post by yobbo89 « Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:31 pm
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by Star Dad » Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:24 pm

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Hi All - I am doing a presentation for some Girl Scouts tomorrow and am in dire straits. The R,G,B images were taken by a NASA telescope and sent to...

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good job, congrats on the seminar .

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Last post by yobbo89
Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:31 pm
Flats

Last post by Mac « Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:04 pm
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by Mac » Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:13 am
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Like every good AP'r I am trying to learn imaging properly which would include taking flats. I've not used any in my processing thus far.

Are 20...

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If you upload the master I could look at it. It'll give a similar reading.

I need to create new ones and setup the scope. There may be a few hours...
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Last post by Mac
Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:04 pm
As newbie as it gets

Last post by sebasb21 « Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:06 am
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by sebasb21 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:50 pm

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Hi,

So you will have to have some patience here, i hope this is a good place to post this.

I have Celestron reflector on a crappy mount (i think...

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Tried Autostakker and managed to stack some frames from a quick video i took from the same session. Really impressed! It managed to improve quite a...

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Last post by sebasb21
Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:06 am
Plate solving for multi-session images?

Last post by Juno16 « Mon Jan 06, 2020 12:25 pm
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by starfield » Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:12 pm

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Hi all,

I'm looking to capture some more data for an image of the horsehead nebula that I snagged a couple of weeks back. I'd like to be able to...

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Cool!

I really like Astrophotography Tool and have great success blind solving in about 20 seconds with All Sky Plate Solver.

I tried NINA, but it...

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Last post by Juno16
Mon Jan 06, 2020 12:25 pm
Starnet++ for Mac

Last post by yobbo89 « Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:52 pm
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by Baskevo » Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:13 pm

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Hi guys,

So I'm trying to work through STEVE333 process in PI, and I've gotten to the starnet++ part. I'm trying to install it, but I've been having...

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does your cpu support avx instructions ?

edit: never mind, i read you have it working.

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Last post by yobbo89
Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:52 pm
What's Going On With My Stars?

Last post by UlteriorModem « Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:27 pm
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by Juno16 » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:55 am

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Hi Everyone,

I have been fighting with processing a Rosette nebula image for the past few days. Initially, I really liked it. Then, on closer...

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Hey Jim?

While I was doing some research yesterday I had another thought. Do you know what your arc second per pixel scale is?

If not go here and...

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Last post by UlteriorModem
Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:27 pm
PI ... all channels exactly the same?

Last post by Stuart « Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:53 pm
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by UlteriorModem » Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:58 pm

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I posted this over on PI's forum but thought I would also post it here. Hopefully someone might have an idea. Might also help someone in the future...

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Hey Tom, I'm glad you fixed the problem.

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Last post by Stuart
Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:53 pm
Calibration frames with ZWO ASI1600MM Pro Mono

Last post by Baskevo « Wed Jan 01, 2020 12:28 pm
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by Baskevo » Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:34 am

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Hi guys,

I just had a few quick questions that I keep finding conflicting info on, and I wanted to see what you all think, regarding calibration...

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For your flats you should use the same gain/offset and temperature as your lights. Strictly, same temperature is not required but since you need to...

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Last post by Baskevo
Wed Jan 01, 2020 12:28 pm
Combining Dark Files

Last post by Juno16 « Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:33 pm
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by Juno16 » Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:43 pm

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Hey all,

This might sound kind of funny, but I am curious if it is acceptable to use, say, 20 dark files at 30 degrees and 20 dark files at 50...

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I don't think the hue matters. Sometimes when I'm lazy I take them the next morning from a blue sky instead of at night against a white wall, I can't...

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Last post by Juno16
Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:33 pm
New ZWO ASI120MC-S received now looking for software needed:

Last post by Smitty « Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:00 am
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by Smitty » Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:03 am

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Received a ZWO ASI120MC-S camera and have downloaded ASICAP and SharpCap. I am extremely new to AP and have only futzed around with my DSLR being...

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SharpCap is good. You can do live stacking that way (EAA or VA or whatever the heck they are calling it nowadays).

SharpCap will also facilitate...

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Last post by Smitty
Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:00 am
New Noise Reduction Technique?

Last post by STEVE333 « Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:23 am
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by STEVE333 » Sun Dec 29, 2019 6:26 am

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Because of the fairly high Light Pollution in my area I'm always fighting noise. Using PixInsight, he following is a new technique I've tried that...

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Hi Steve,
It's basically a smoothing expression. It can possibly work for nonlinear--you just need to update the a and b values. But I wouldn't.
So...

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Last post by STEVE333
Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:23 am
How to combine RGB with HOO narrowband in PI?

Last post by Stuart « Fri Dec 27, 2019 6:19 pm
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by Stuart » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:12 pm

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Hi all,
Working with an image (not ready to post yet). It's a planetary nebula that has a lot of Ha and O3, and I have LRGB as well as Ha and O3...

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Thanks JimMin! I have the script. I'll try the other one, though.
I have another idea, I've been playing around with the SCNR with some masking.

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Last post by Stuart
Fri Dec 27, 2019 6:19 pm
First attempt at mosaic

Last post by 1jimalexander « Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:25 pm
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by 1jimalexander » Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:46 pm

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I'm trying to create a 4 panel mosaic.
Files: 10 dark, 24 frames of Ha for each panel. I created the panels with SGP mosaic wizard.
I,m just doing...

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OK then....getting up to speed with PixInsight. I've got the book by Warren A. Keller and I've been viewing video tutorials.
I'm having trouble...

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Last post by 1jimalexander
Thu Dec 26, 2019 7:25 pm
Software

Last post by DaveM « Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:26 am
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by RC83 » Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:16 pm

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Hi guys,

What does everyone use to process their images? I know photoshop is very popular but I've also heard it has become expensive. Are there any...

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Astro Pixel Processor, a game changer! (and affordable)

Dave

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Last post by DaveM
Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:26 am
I can't see star clusters with my phone!

Last post by Seawolfe « Tue Dec 24, 2019 7:01 pm
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by StarGazer45 » Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:59 pm

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I've moved to a large terrain far away from the city, so I guess you know what I've been doing. :lol:

I'm trying to take a photo of some star...

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Maybe you need to call the operator or pay for those long distance calls once in a while. :lol: :whistle:

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Last post by Seawolfe
Tue Dec 24, 2019 7:01 pm
Milkyway .. HOW DID I DO? with limited experience...

Last post by Scott Maze « Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:08 am
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by Scott Maze » Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:09 pm

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Are these OK results... considering originals were on cellphone in September... unplanned...

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before you do head out make sure to head on back here and some of us can help with your pre setup. camera settings, and determine the exposure length...

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Last post by Scott Maze
Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:08 am
DeepSkyStacker and Satellite Trails

Last post by STEVE333 « Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:48 pm
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by Juno16 » Thu Dec 19, 2019 7:42 am

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Hi Everyone,

I was imaging the Horsehead and Flame this evening and the last 8 images had satellite trails (I am sure that many more did too)....

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Hi Jim - Just a point of reference. My HP laptop information is shown below. My laptop takes 3 min 36 sec to perform the Starnet process on a 32 bit...

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Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:48 pm

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