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  • bistdunarrisch@lemmy.worldOPtoAstrophotography@lemmy.worldC/2023 A3 & M5
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    14 days ago

    Ah ok, so I assumed you registered all your light frames onto your stars as your stars look very sharp. And that’s the normal way for every astro image you would normally do. A comet however moves so fast that its position changes even in the short time frame were you took the images.

    So after registering all the images with the stars pattern you want to make a second registration were you mark the position of the comet on the first frame and on the last frame. With that now all images are aligned onto the comet and now the stars appear to move in the background. As your stars look so sharp I assumed you didn’t make the second registration. In DSS there is a comet mode for that but I haven’t worked with that so I can’t tell you about the workflow with that program.

    Hope that helped in any way!















  • Thanks for sharing! The software worked better than expected on your image!

    On my research before purchasing the program I also stumbled over your linked forum post. However I found it very misleading, as the software does not generate details learned from other images but only works with data already in your image. As it is a deconvolution tool results can deviate slightly from the true nature. But that has little to do with AI being used here. I needed a whole semester at university to truly understand the maths behind it. My biggest problem is that the software isn’t open source so one can’t look into all the details. But there are already people working on open alternatives.

    But this already is a very specific problem, don’t forget that the biggest difference for good quality makes the data itself. I wish best of luck on your journey!

    Oh and I forgot to mention that one other advice I would give is to search the darkest location to shoot from that you can access. Lightpollutionmap really helps with finding such places.

    Edit: unstreched file with only background extraction and deconvolution: https://drive.proton.me/urls/QD4870ZMF4#uyVBYxKgWxgb


  • For untracked this looks not too bad. To improve I would do the following:

    • in Siril: remove green noise, then photometric colour calibration
    • reduce exposure length to 1s
    • work on background extraction (maybe try GraXpert)
    • if you are not already doing: take calibration frames, especially flats

    Are you interested in sharing the raw stacked file? I use a (paid) deconvolution tool called BlurXterminator and I wonder if it can handle such extreme star shapes. If it works I will of course send you the file.


  • In amateur astrophotography narrowband filters are used to reveal interstellar ionized gas clouds. In this case you can see hydrogen nebulae as red blobs in the spiral arms around M31.

    Well for the high cost, apart from producing them is technologically challenging, it is just simple economics. The market for these filters is still small compared to other things, so the price must be higher to compensate production and development.