Ohhhh nice capture James. Love the Ha you added and the detail in it. Brilliant result. When I eventualy get PixInsight I recon I will be doing some Binge watching of your videos as you always have great, easy to follow workflows.
Always interesting to see your processing videos James, I always come away with ideas. You got wonderful images out of all that data and the way you got that Ha popping. Super.
Great photo and video, James. Definitely some useful tips here, particularly incorporating the Ha with the LRGB. I'm for sure going to try this (if I can get a clear sky this galaxy season!).
Thanks Chad! This method of adding Ha is something Ive only been doing for the past 6 months or so. It works really well... even on non galaxy targets. :)
Nicely done James! It's a fantastic image. I don't think I've had 42 hours of clear night skies all winter. To eliminate the background noise from your Ha channel, try equalizing the Ha background with a Pixel Math expression. Measure the Ha sky background and enter a value slightly larger than that into the following expression. Let's assume your background had a K value of 0.079, then I would use 0.08 in this expression: iif($T
Really nice image. Stunning actually. The Ha regions really stand out nicely in your data and I love the upward flick of Ha near the core. Interesting to hear your thoughts on the ASI294mmPro as I have been considering it as an option for my Redcat and 10" SCT using the different Bin modes for each scope.
Thanks Logan. That 294mm is an interesting camera. With the dark calibrations, I have a local friend who is using the qhy version.. I think he was using 20 min subs (unguided on a 10 micron.. talk about gear envy, lol!) and he noticed issues with the darks not fully correcting the amp glow. Bringing the sub exposure down seemed to have helped. The pixel size is nice though... i really like the bin2 pixels on my edge. I have not played with bin1 mode... but if it works well I bet it would be awesome on the redcat. If you get that combo to work.. i might pick up a redcat lol. Although I thought the 1600 did a really nice job for you on the redcat. :)
@@DSOImager wow unguided 20mins, gear envy alright! I have been mostly happy with the results using the Redcat especially with the detail etc in the nebulosity. My main problem was the stars looking square but in my latest image (video still in the works), having largely processed the image, I really hated the look of the stars as the object was in a very heavily star populated area. So I stacked the data again purely for the stars using a 2 x drizzle and that worked incredibly well, getting round stars out of square ones. So I think I'll continue with that process for the redcat in the meantime.
@@LogansAstro That's been my primary concern with going shorter than my sv70t at 336mm. Heavy star fields.. with over powering stars. Drizzle does work pretty well. Everything with my sv70t is drizzled.. and I have found that drizzle even does a nice job with my at115edt. Looking forward to your next video.. if you can get nice stars with ~3.7 μm pixels and the redcat.. I will be very interested. :)
Thanks Isaac, appreciate the comment :) Lately.. most of my edits are usually 1-2 hours.. but that's not the full story because I'll often edit an image while I'm in the middle of collecting data. Sometimes I'll edit and decide to get more data on the same target. So by the time the "final edit" is started.. I've already edited said object a few times.
Ohhhh nice capture James.
Love the Ha you added and the detail in it. Brilliant result.
When I eventualy get PixInsight I recon I will be doing some Binge watching of your videos as you always have great, easy to follow workflows.
Thanks Ben! Im glad you like these videos :)
Always interesting to see your processing videos James, I always come away with ideas. You got wonderful images out of all that data and the way you got that Ha popping. Super.
Thanks for watching Ollie!
Beautiful job and excellent work James! I always pick something up in every one of your videos.
Thanks Joe! I'm glad you are finding this beneficial.
Great photo and video, James. Definitely some useful tips here, particularly incorporating the Ha with the LRGB. I'm for sure going to try this (if I can get a clear sky this galaxy season!).
Thanks Chad! This method of adding Ha is something Ive only been doing for the past 6 months or so. It works really well... even on non galaxy targets. :)
Nicely done James! It's a fantastic image. I don't think I've had 42 hours of clear night skies all winter. To eliminate the background noise from your Ha channel, try equalizing the Ha background with a Pixel Math expression. Measure the Ha sky background and enter a value slightly larger than that into the following expression. Let's assume your background had a K value of 0.079, then I would use 0.08 in this expression: iif($T
Excellent tip David. I will give this a try :)
Incredible work James!
Thanks Avanteesh!
Nice one! I have quite some data on M106 myself... Only I shot it with the GT81, so it was just at 385mm of focal length.
Thanks!
I shot it last year with my 70mm and the 533mc. Its a good widefield galaxy season target.. so much in that area.
That's a beautiful image of M106 there James I really must spend more time on targets rather than do a few hours here & there.
Thanks Dalek!
Really nice image. Stunning actually. The Ha regions really stand out nicely in your data and I love the upward flick of Ha near the core. Interesting to hear your thoughts on the ASI294mmPro as I have been considering it as an option for my Redcat and 10" SCT using the different Bin modes for each scope.
Thanks Logan.
That 294mm is an interesting camera. With the dark calibrations, I have a local friend who is using the qhy version.. I think he was using 20 min subs (unguided on a 10 micron.. talk about gear envy, lol!) and he noticed issues with the darks not fully correcting the amp glow. Bringing the sub exposure down seemed to have helped.
The pixel size is nice though... i really like the bin2 pixels on my edge. I have not played with bin1 mode... but if it works well I bet it would be awesome on the redcat. If you get that combo to work.. i might pick up a redcat lol. Although I thought the 1600 did a really nice job for you on the redcat. :)
@@DSOImager wow unguided 20mins, gear envy alright! I have been mostly happy with the results using the Redcat especially with the detail etc in the nebulosity. My main problem was the stars looking square but in my latest image (video still in the works), having largely processed the image, I really hated the look of the stars as the object was in a very heavily star populated area. So I stacked the data again purely for the stars using a 2 x drizzle and that worked incredibly well, getting round stars out of square ones. So I think I'll continue with that process for the redcat in the meantime.
@@LogansAstro That's been my primary concern with going shorter than my sv70t at 336mm. Heavy star fields.. with over powering stars.
Drizzle does work pretty well. Everything with my sv70t is drizzled.. and I have found that drizzle even does a nice job with my at115edt.
Looking forward to your next video.. if you can get nice stars with ~3.7 μm pixels and the redcat.. I will be very interested. :)
I think it's an awesome as always James. 40 hours is ALOT of time, you have been busy! How long so you typically take for an edit?
Thanks Isaac, appreciate the comment :)
Lately.. most of my edits are usually 1-2 hours.. but that's not the full story because I'll often edit an image while I'm in the middle of collecting data. Sometimes I'll edit and decide to get more data on the same target. So by the time the "final edit" is started.. I've already edited said object a few times.