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[GSBass]

Wideangle Rosetta with teleconverter and l’enhance, I think the Christmas tree is upper left but it did not come in as well

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[eyeoftexas]

My first Milky Way picture, taken at Bortle 2ish dark site. Straight out of the D3, no post processing.  Centered on the Double Cluster. M31 is down in the corner. I didn’t know it was there until well into taking the shot. 
 

 

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[GSBass]

I played with the Orion wideangle teleconverter png this morning, although sharper I felt like there was not much signal to work with, so I guess you can be easily fooled by what your getting when you spend time messing with the internal curves. However doing longer subs were definitely noisier…. So I think the verdict may be the capture algorithms on wideangle side  will need to improve before you could do successful post work….ill revisit as it matures… it is a lot of fun doing eaa with it though

[Psion]

Flaming Star and Tadpoles nebulas mosaic, Bortle 6, 906 x 15s exposure (3.8 hours), gain 60, DB filter, temp -3,5° C. I processed the output FIT with GraXpert and PixInsight.

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[GSBass]

I think I better understood d3 limitations while imaging Witchhead last night, could hardly see it at 1 hr and not much better at 2…. Just talking eaa though, I’m sure it could be pulled out in post, it’s a difficult target for my Vespera too though…. As far as eaa I think the blue channel seems to be particularly subdued so maybe future updates can help some. I also was just shooting with internal Astro, it may have been a good candidate to stack my neodymium for a little more contrast… I was shooting 30sec 50db in bortle 5

[Psion]

M33 galaxy, Bortle 6, 207 x 15s exposure (0.5 hours), gain 60, no filter, temp -3,5° C. I processed the output FIT with GraXpert and PixInsight.

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Edited by Psion, 02 January 2025 - 03:38 AM.

[BaloneyNZ]

Semi cloudy B7 conditions but the given the forecast for the rest of the week is for rain and clouds I decided to try out the schedule planner. As I only have clear views to the SW-NW I used sky safari to help determine when the DSO's would be visible. Things worked pretty seamlessly and I took on about 4 objects over 5hrs-6hrs. When it was done it looked like the lens retracted to the closed position which was nice to see.

I have completed light amateur processing using PI on 3 of the targets starting with the Eastern Veil Nebula. (B7, 360x15sec, 60 Gain, AL/AZ, Dual Band).  

 

[BaloneyNZ]

Eastern Veil Nebula. (B7, 360x15sec, 60 Gain, AL/AZ, Dual Band).

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[BaloneyNZ]

M33. (B7, 289x15sec, 60 Gain, AL/AZ, Astro Filter).

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[BaloneyNZ]

The Pleiades. (B7, 380x15sec, 60 Gain, AL/AZ, Astro Filter).

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[Psion]

IC443, Bortle 6, 780 x 15s exposure (3.25 hours), gain 60, DB filter, temp -3,5° C. I processed the output FIT with GraXpert and PixInsight.

 

For such a weak object it needs a better sky or a significantly longer exposure. It's a combination of the three Fits. I'll try stack a separate Fits, that should be better.

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Edited by Psion, 03 January 2025 - 03:54 AM.

[BaloneyNZ]

M42. (Bortle 7, 268x15sec, 60 Gain, AL/AZ, Dual Band Filter). Processed in PI

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[BaloneyNZ]

For comparison this is the stacked jpeg direct from the scope with AI noise reduction turned on. (just roughly cropped to the same view as above)  

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[GSBass]

The a.i. is too much for my taste, it would be nice if we had a little control over that… but I guess if it’s only affecting the jpg then it’s no biggie, although it looks like you can stop it, it does not look like you can revert if you don’t like the treatment

[Odisej62]

M 45 in B4, 15 sec, G 60, 90 minutes

 

 

[Odisej62]

Thor's helmet; B 5, multiple sessions of approx 15 hours combined, mixed 15 and 30 seconds. Low on horizon (max 30 degrees).

 

Edited by Odisej62, 03 January 2025 - 10:17 AM.

[BaloneyNZ]

Had a play around with a workflow posted online for processing Sun images. The first image is direct from the D3  ~500 staged images. 

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[BaloneyNZ]

Here's the result of using PIPP, AutoStakkert, and Astrosurface. A bit of mucking around but maybe the whole process took 10-15mins to do. (I was blindly following the instructions). I played with some curves to make it look like a giant orange.

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[Infiniumguy]

My first DSO with the Dwarf 3. M-31, Andromeda Galaxy. I could not be more pleased with the D3 and this image. 15S, 60, 240 subs. A friend processed it in PI for me. Gaining some skill in PI is on the near term horizon. I did this image in Alt-Az mode mostly because I have not figured out how to do a good PA. I've watched Cuiv and other's videos and it does not look too bad. Good thing I did this when I did. We had a good amount of snow and wind come in right after I did this session. 

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[GSBass]

Dwarf labs is going to be a major player going forward, they have figured it out

My first DSO with the Dwarf 3. M-31, Andromeda Galaxy. I could not be more pleased with the D3 and this image. 15S, 60, 240 subs. A friend processed it in PI for me. Gaining some skill in PI is on the near term horizon. I did this image in Alt-Az mode mostly because I have not figured out how to do a good PA. I've watched Cuiv and other's videos and it does not look too bad. Good thing I did this when I did. We had a good amount of snow and wind come in right after I did this session. 

[Glenilacqua]

Wow! All I can say is WOW!. This is truly impressive. I'm chomping at the bit for my D3 to be shipped. HighPoint is saying late January. Beautiful work. It would be great to see the unprocessed stacked image before and after PI processing. 

 

 

My first DSO with the Dwarf 3. M-31, Andromeda Galaxy. I could not be more pleased with the D3 and this image. 15S, 60, 240 subs. A friend processed it in PI for me. Gaining some skill in PI is on the near term horizon. I did this image in Alt-Az mode mostly because I have not figured out how to do a good PA. I've watched Cuiv and other's videos and it does not look too bad. Good thing I did this when I did. We had a good amount of snow and wind come in right after I did this session. 

[Psion]

Test how Dwarf 3 will behave in stronger gusts. Stacked of 50 frames, exposure 1/400, gain 2. JPEG from Dwarf 3.

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Edited by Psion, 10 January 2025 - 02:38 PM.

[Infiniumguy]

Wow! All I can say is WOW!. This is truly impressive. I'm chomping at the bit for my D3 to be shipped. HighPoint is saying late January. Beautiful work. It would be great to see the unprocessed stacked image before and after PI processing. 

Thank you. Truthfully I'm in awe that this little $500 smart telescope can deliver the data to turn it into a real representation of M-31. Quality tools (PI and PS) made a huge difference. I love it. Here is the stacked, unstretched, jpeg right out of the D3. Not sure this is exactly what you asked for, but this is closest I can easily get to. If weather permits, I hope to do another session tonight with longer subs and using a PA. When I get some quality results I'll post an update. 

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[jprideaux]

moon-m45 transient - Dwarf3
Two Dwarf3 images here superimposed.

One with the moon properly exposed.

The other exposed so the stars show-up but the moon completely blown-out.
I post-processed the blown-out moon image to remove the moon leaving just the stars.

Then added in the stars from the other image.

 

 

Next I made an animated GIF of the moon going across m45 using those same 2 images described above.
I had also taken another image 2 hours later when the moon was right in front of the Pleiades.
I used the 2-hour-later image as a guide to where the moon ended up.
Then I loaded the stars-only image and my first properly exposed moon image as 2 different layers in Affinity Photo.
I then made a copy of the moon layer and moved it to the location of where my final image was.
I then made a few more copies of my moon layer and positioned them at various points between these two end-points.
I turned each moon layer on one at a time and saved off that image.
Then I loaded that collection of images into a GIF-creator to produce what you see here.

 

animated gif of moon going across M45

[BaloneyNZ]

On a very windy and cloudy night I tried an experiment with the framing option from the atlas. While I understand that the beta version of the app includes mosaic mode I do not recall this being mentioned in the latest official version release notes. While you could change the framing in the app I assumed that this wouldn't do anything during the capturing phase. (I am not on the standard version not beta) I was surprised to find however that it did start capturing a mosaic. The actual capture was pretty rough with lots of rejected subs and it stopped stacking after about 200 shots. I think that this was due to the target going behind clouds, and/or the strong wind+ the extreme light gradient from a near by building. From a quick flick through the subframes it looked that the first few frames between panels slews showed that the scope had failed to fully settle. (very streaky stars)  Again I was initially only looking to see if changing the framing did anything. Unless I missed this being announced maybe this feature is still a work in progress? For interest sake the following is based on a framing of 1.3x1.8 the native FOV. (Bortle 7, 15sec x 60gain about 150 stacked subs) you can quite easily see the stitching lines in the mosaic and the portions of the frame that the algorithm did not get to could not complete.

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