M31: Any PI challengers for more LP Data?

[Baskevo]

Hi Ya'll! As I'm waiting for my new OTA from ES, I have been playing around with the stacking process with some data gathered with my original ED80. I saw FatBoy post up asking if anyone was up for processing his data and I was blown away by the results. I am going through the learning process right now with PI, and I absolutely love it, but I feel like I am probably not doing as good of a job as I could be (which I understand takes time and patience). It would be really nice to have some reference points!

M31, shot with Explore Scientific ED80 and Canon T7i DSLR, with an Orion SKYGLOW filter in a Bortle 8. I have a little over 8 hours of data from 2 different nights, at 800ISO & 120sec subs. I stacked them in DSS.



Thanks everyone I really appreciate any skills you might be able to share!

[Stuart]

Did you drizzle this data? The file is really big and is a bit difficult to process.

[Baskevo]

Yes I did :sigh:
It's difficult to process because it is so large or because of something else?

Well thanks for trying Stuart lol

[Stuart]

Yes I did :sigh:
It's difficult to process because it is so large or because of something else?

Well thanks for trying Stuart lol

My laptop doesn't have enough horses to handle drizzled images. It's like trying to maneuver a big yacht with paddles. If you want to repost a non-drizzled version I'll be happy to give it a shot.

[Baskevo]

Great! Thanks Stuart I will try to do that tonight

[Baskevo]

Yes I did :sigh:
It's difficult to process because it is so large or because of something else?

Well thanks for trying Stuart lol

My laptop doesn't have enough horses to handle drizzled images. It's like trying to maneuver a big yacht with paddles. If you want to repost a non-drizzled version I'll be happy to give it a shot.

Does that one work? Thanks again for your help Stuart!

[Stuart]

Here you go:
dynamic crop
DBE
Background neutralization
Color calibration
MLT
Arcsinstretch
HIstogram transformation (multiple iterations to taste)
Curves transformation (multiple iterations to taste--some with color saturation curve through masks)
Dark structure enhance
Morphologic transformation
ACDNR
Histogram transformation
Curves for final twiddle
Resample

[Baskevo]

Here you go:
dynamic crop
DBE
Background neutralization
Color calibration
MLT
Arcsinstretch
HIstogram transformation (multiple iterations to taste)
Curves transformation (multiple iterations to taste--some with color saturation curve through masks)
Dark structure enhance
Morphologic transformation
ACDNR
Histogram transformation
Curves for final twiddle
Resample

m31.jpg

Sweet! Thank you very much Stuart I appreciate the reference point It looks pretty cool