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Hbomberguy is so based

I am sorry to say I can frequently be this friend...

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Damn dude. Some people just like not being fired for having something pop up on their screen during a break. No need to get so offended that rules exist.

Damn dude. Some people just like not being fired for having something pop up on their screen during a break. No need to get so offended that rules exist.

Damn, you got me. Im sure its very important work your doing.

This was on a canon 90d on a star adventurer 2i, with a 50mm f1.8 lens stopped to around f5.6

30sec exposures at iso 800 stacked up using Siril

A bonus restretch and crop to just the galaxy. You can see the arms!

Tru tru

Hey thanks a lot! This was my 2nd attempt at all, but my first with an actual target, not Just snapping a picture of the sky

I wrote up my method here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12982996

Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas too, I'm here to learn :D

Thank you for your interest and compliments :) I was following advice from Nico Carvers channel for taking the frames: I am in a Bottle 4/5 sky so am decently lucky in that regard I took 400 light frames ( had to cull about half though) at 3sec exposure time to try and keep sharpess based on the NPF rule.

For processing I used Siril and a lot of tutorials. I stacked the frames (minus flats because it didn't like the ones I took), then ran background extraction, plate solved colour calibration, and then I removed the stars with starnet.

I stretched the nebula using the generalised hyperbolic transform (I wanted to learn it, so far only used the others) and was happy with the results I got! My main trick was to do just enough stretching and reset the black point at each step, being careful about clipping. I then readded the stars at the level that I found aesthetic

I don't know too much yet, this was my 2nd astro project at all, but I really loved it!

I just got a star adventurer 2i and the next clear night will have me doing Andromeda

LEDs kinda ruin the simplicity. Current runs into a chunk of Gallium Nitride and mumble mumble quantum mumble mumble bandgap and light comes out!