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Discussion in 'My Astrophotos' started by ROBERT T SCHAEFER JR, Aug 26, 2020.

  1. ROBERT T SCHAEFER JR

    ROBERT T SCHAEFER JR Cyanogen Customer

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    152mm A+M Refractor(OfficinaStellare-1200mmF/L) using a TeleVue .8XReducer/Flattener for an effect of 950mmFL and a BreakThrough X4-UV 49mm filter with step-rings to 48mm , and a CanonEOSII RebelT7i modified UV-IR @ Hutech .. on an Astro-Physics 1200GTO Mount at 1xSiderealGuideRate and 'guiding' , and taking RAWMonochrome Autosave Sequences for two each of 47sec ISO200 and ISO400 , and two each of 47secISO800 and ISO1600 and one each of 67secISO800 and ISO1600 , and three 47secISO3200 and two 47secISO6400 and one 67secISO3200 ... I processed the images like I usually do and then I put ISO200 and ISO400 into one Folder and ISO800 and ISO1600 into another Folder and ISO3200 and ISO6400 into another Folder and then each Folder was Average stacked because Sum stacking made the denser color areas too over-saturated and when I stacked each Folder separately as Average I then stacked all the FITS stacked results of each Folder together as Average stacked to try to keep the M8 more transparent instead of color over-saturated . From an Bin2 size I did a "Double Size" to the final stacked image and then I used the 'screen-stretch' at Max-Val and I then used the "Digital Development - GaussianBlur- 1.0 radius" and then I used the "Levels -Gamma ' .75 ' and the 'green-carot' for brightness all the way to the right " , and then I used the "Kernal Filter with 'pixel-restrictions' for the mid-values to sharpen the image and then a mild-blur " and this is the result .x
     

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