First light on Orion and Flame Nebula with asi2600mc and Antila LPT filter need your thoughts Requests for constructive critique · Loky · ... · 8 · 723 · 0

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Hello guys, would be welcome  to hear your thoughts on my first job which I made on my new rig. I just switched from my old  Nikon d5600 dslr to ZWO   ASI2600MC . I'm really happy with the results in my Bortle 9 LP area . 
https://astrob.in/ihfp3w/0/
https://astrob.in/t51ot0/0/
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mariusvr 0.00
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Wow very cool. Orion looks amazing, velvet smooth. Nice round stars, personal preference for me would be slightly darker background to show blackness of space. But I would be extremely happy with such an image.

Like the flame nebula colours. The stars are quite green. Did you process stars different from the nebula? A denoise would also make it look smoother.

I am also new at this and did an identical switch from dslr to astro photography camera. What do you think of my first light image:
https://www.astrobin.com/y56ow1/

Cheers, Marius
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Gmadkat 4.44
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Congratulations on the first images off the new rig, and especially from Bortle 9! I would suggest to add a lot more data to help with the SNR, especially from your skies.
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Loky 0.00
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Thx for your responses guys))
mariusvr     Wow your picture looks very contrast !! )
As for me I process the whole picture ,  I don't know how to process it separately  unfortunately(( If you can point me will be really appreciate 

gmadkat  Im gathering the data every night when the weather is allowed now. Its really clear for last week so I have a lot already))). But can you explain pls the  proper way to merge it together?For example a have a light+flat+bias frames  from day 1, 2 and 3  , flats and bias are different for every day , light  also can have different angle, exposure time, sensor temp etc. Should I merge everything all L + all F +all B +all D оr I need to stack it separately by day and then somehow merge staked images for every day? The same question for stacking L with O+H  filter frames.

Clear Skies
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Gmadkat 4.44
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I typically do my light+flat+bias+dark frames  from day 1, 2 and 3 and create my calibrated masters separately per day, and then register the masters and integrate them to get my grand total masters per channel, for both SHO and LRGB. Hope that helps!
CS Gowri
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Loky 0.00
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Where you merge your masters to total master) in dss?
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mariusvr 0.00
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I used starxterminator in photoshop, which splits the photo into a star and nebula layer (then you can process them separately):
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/StarXTerminator/

Their gradient remover is also very handy.

Cheers, Marius
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andymw 11.01
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A really great first image of the horsehead.  A couple of things I noticed:

1) you hadn't removed the stacking artefacts before processing it;  that will always make it much harder to process
2) the noise levels are high because you need more time on it
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Gmadkat 4.44
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I use Pixinsight, not DSS.
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