I think you gotten this astrophotography thing down pat. Did you use a filter? All processing was done in Affinity Photos? What color tools did you use to bring out the colors? Did you use Affinity to stitch the mosaic? Just read you are getting the 2600MC Pro. You image scale is down around 0.66”/pixel with focal reducer. I’ll be interested in your results.
From memory used the “Normalised” stretch macro as the retain colour was too much colour, I reworked it as the initial try was over sharpened and had noise/grain, no filter though that is on the list. Processed from go to whoa in Affinity including the stitch which is of the stacked individual panels which after stacking are Tiffs and as I said I did a minimal stretch to assist Affinity find some detail to line up in the mosaic. All my images end up in Photos on the Mac and I do a final tweak there. The pixel size is identical to the 533 and that came up as ideal in the calculator so it should be ok. Probably mid next week by the time I get it so just set up the 533 on the guide scope for my G9m2 as a test for when the 2600 arrives.
I've been playing around with Affinity Photos 2.5.2 and I have to tell you I'm having a difficult time. I've download the macros but havin't starting using them yet, deciding to learn more manual methods in case a macro doesn't work and I need to manual adjust the image. Stacking is easy but often the background color has a shade of magenta. I discovered how to use Levels to sync the colors and using samples in the Info tab to monitor if I clip my stretches. I work on color balance early in the process and then use Curves to stretch and I can get my target, M101, to show up but compared to Siril the I can't get the same colors to come to come out.
@@KJRitch No harm in trying the macros and compare with the manual result. Have you been removing the background? That usually removes noise, tint and or gradient from the background in one step.
Great photos!!
I think you gotten this astrophotography thing down pat. Did you use a filter? All processing was done in Affinity Photos? What color tools did you use to bring out the colors? Did you use Affinity to stitch the mosaic? Just read you are getting the 2600MC Pro. You image scale is down around 0.66”/pixel with focal reducer. I’ll be interested in your results.
From memory used the “Normalised” stretch macro as the retain colour was too much colour, I reworked it as the initial try was over sharpened and had noise/grain, no filter though that is on the list. Processed from go to whoa in Affinity including the stitch which is of the stacked individual panels which after stacking are Tiffs and as I said I did a minimal stretch to assist Affinity find some detail to line up in the mosaic. All my images end up in Photos on the Mac and I do a final tweak there. The pixel size is identical to the 533 and that came up as ideal in the calculator so it should be ok. Probably mid next week by the time I get it so just set up the 533 on the guide scope for my G9m2 as a test for when the 2600 arrives.
Do you set the 533 to Bin 1 or 2”
@@KJRitch Yes Bin1 for everything so far, at 3008 x 3008 after having 5776 x 4336 I am not keen to reduce resolution one bit.
I've been playing around with Affinity Photos 2.5.2 and I have to tell you I'm having a difficult time. I've download the macros but havin't starting using them yet, deciding to learn more manual methods in case a macro doesn't work and I need to manual adjust the image. Stacking is easy but often the background color has a shade of magenta. I discovered how to use Levels to sync the colors and using samples in the Info tab to monitor if I clip my stretches. I work on color balance early in the process and then use Curves to stretch and I can get my target, M101, to show up but compared to Siril the I can't get the same colors to come to come out.
@@KJRitch No harm in trying the macros and compare with the manual result. Have you been removing the background? That usually removes noise, tint and or gradient from the background in one step.