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Workshops and Conferences / PixInsight in the UK - July 2013

« on: 2013 March 26 14:55:49 »

Ian King's next Advanced Imaging Course which includes a couple of hours on PI by Harry and myself will take place on 20th July in Coventry.

The content will be very similar to the last one held at Herstmonceux Castle back in December. We're hoping a more central location in the UK will favour those who couldn't attend in December.

See Ian's website for more details

http://www.iankingimaging.com/show_products.php?category=169

Nigel

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Gallery / NGC1333

« on: 2013 February 26 23:05:39 »

I've been trying to capture this target for some time. This winter I've collected a lot of LRGB data and have been very critical in rejecting bad data. I've thrown around 25% of the subs away.

Lum 4 hours, RGB 2 hours each all at 10 minutes exposures using STL-11K on FSQ106 at f/3.6, Astrodon filters

Quite pleased with the result 

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Gallery / IC405/410/417

« on: 2013 February 11 23:34:38 »

I been experimenting with adding Ha to RGB. I've followed Harry's tutorial based on Vicents procedure

The Ha data was collected in January 2011, RGB last month

Taken with FSQ106 at f/3.6 and STL-11000 using Astrodon filters

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Bug Reports / Batch Preprocessing Script

« on: 2013 January 28 16:23:01 »

I've recently started using the Batch Preprocessing Script to save considerable time in calibrating my subs

I've encountered a problem in that the Script will only ever calibrate the first set of lights even though I've added Red, Green and Blue light frames. I've reproduced this on my Win 7 Pro 64 bit desktop and Win 7 Pro 32-bit laptop

Has anybody also encountered this problem? If so is there a work around?

Thanks in advance

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Gallery / NGC7000 and Pelican

« on: 2012 September 19 11:03:59 »

I've recently upgraded my mount and this was first light. Only 4 x 20 minute exposures but pleased with the outcome 

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Gallery / IC434 and M42

« on: 2012 May 10 20:54:40 »

A year in the waiting!

I captured the Lum and color data on 1 February 2012 (a very clear cold night). However, when I came to process it became apparent that my target had passed behind my neighbours tree losing some of the colour data!

Earlier this year I collected more colour data and tongiht sat down to process

I took 15s, 60s and 300s exposures to Lum and combined using HDR composition in PixInsight to get detail into the centre of M42

Enjoy!

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Gallery / Mosaic in Ha - Rosette to Cone

« on: 2012 May 09 17:06:41 »

Hi all

Finally got round to processing some data 

The image below is a three pane mosaic processed in PixInsight using the multiscale method and mosaic star alignment. Fields of this size present lots of interesting challenges such a gradients .... Without the Save Project function I'd have been stuffed ..... 

Nigel

*** UPDATE ***

Exposure was 4x1200s per panel, so 3x80mins for the complete image

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Gallery / Wide Field Cygnus - WIP

« on: 2011 October 19 08:46:18 »

Hi all

Only managed to get 3 subs at 20 mins each last night between the clouds. As I haven't posted for a while thought I'd share 

This is the area around the Tulip nebula. the bright star is Eta Cygni

FSQ106/STL-11k/Astrodon 5nm Ha

Nigel

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Workshops and Conferences / PixInsight Intro Macclesfield Town Hall 2 August

« on: 2011 August 01 09:53:41 »

The second in a series of talks I'm doing for Macclesfield Astro Club and will take place at Macclesfield Town Hall 8pm Tuesday August 2nd

The first talk covered how to capture data (scopes, mounts, guiding, dithering etc)

Tomorrow I will be processing a LRGB image from subs to the finished LRGB image using PixInsight

Nigel

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Gallery / Simeis-147

« on: 2011 June 12 11:52:17 »

Morning all

Been battling with this one a bit but think I've got a natural looking image?

Nigel

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Gallery / Sadr Region of Cygnus in Ha

« on: 2011 June 10 08:16:01 »

Hi all

Well after a long absence due to personal reasons I managed to get some data last week and processed it over the last couple of days

Details as follows

Taken on 2 June 2011

Centre: RA 20h 18m 57s, Dec +39° 44' 44"
Camera Angle +359° 40'

Focal Length: 389.0 mm
Resolution: 4.77"/Pixel

Imaging scope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX at f/3.6
Camera: SBIG STL-11000
Filter: Astrodon Ha 5nm
Capture Software: Maxim DL
Guide scope/camera: IKI 80mm/Orion Starshoot Autoguider
Mount: EQ6 Pro

Exposure:
Ha 8x900s dithered 2.5 pixels

Processing: Stacked in CCDStack. Processing in PixInsight v1.7

Nigel

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Bug Reports / Histogram Title Bar issue

« on: 2011 February 02 23:21:27 »

This 'feature' has been annoying me for sometime and I believe Sander has reported it also

I can now reproduce it

With reference to the attached screenshot

1. Maximise Histo tool
2. Maximise HDRC tool
3. Maximise top image (HDR Mask 13)
4. Minimise top image
5. Minimise Histo tool
6. Minimise HDRC tool when the title bar on the Histo tool changes

HTH

Nigel

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General Discussion / HDRComposition problem

« on: 2011 February 02 16:56:29 »

Hi all

Following Rogelio's tutorial I've been playing with my wn data on IC434/M42

I am using 300s and 15s exposures

When I use HDRComposition the central core fo M42 is still burnt out.

I've located the problem to the mask generated. It is not masking the core at all. Which parameters do I tweak to fix this?

Thanks

Nigel

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Gallery / NGC7000

« on: 2011 January 17 15:13:11 »

Hi all

A new camera and an old target this one

The reason I am posting this image is for assistance

I want to try Atrous Wavelets on this image but do not know where to start. So if anybody fancies a play please feel free to do so and let me know

Full size image at www.nigelaball.com/Images/NGC7000.jpg

Nigel

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Bug Reports / v 1.6.9.652 Image Registration problem

« on: 2011 January 03 17:08:19 »

I've found that the latest update is not saving the registered files to the specified directory

This was previously working fine on my PC