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StarMike

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A few more captures from last week
« on: September 12, 2016, 02:11:19 PM »
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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2016, 02:12:37 PM »
Part of the Pelican nebula

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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2016, 02:13:17 PM »
Trifid

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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2016, 02:13:44 PM »
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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2016, 10:30:23 AM »
More good stuff, I particularly like the filaments in the Trifid  :)

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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2016, 11:20:06 AM »
Very nice.

Can you comment some of your post-production methods?
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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2016, 12:54:18 PM »
I try not to do much post production.  I have the Mono camera, so I often add some color.  Sometime I do a little de-noising, but mostly just add color.  The Infinity does pretty well on its own

The Pelican had a lot of noise.  It is in the light dome of where I live so a difficult.  If you zoom up the Pelican, you can see some digital artifacts from the de-noise process, but I can live with that since it really brought out the details
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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2016, 01:01:02 PM »
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Thanks Jo, that was my best pic I had ever got for the trifid.  The only thing I did to it was add the red color (I have the mono camera)

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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2016, 01:38:00 PM »
 Impressive results, maybe better than a colour camera. The light is very good, definitely better in my opinion.

I post a picture taked with my color camera to compare...


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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2016, 03:51:24 PM »
Still a good image, maybe some adjustments to the Histogram could get you brighter images.  I read somewhere that the Mono Infinity was 4 times more sensitive than the color, which is why I purchased it.  I am going to try some LRGB filters with my Infinity soon to see of I can get better color but still keep the sensitivity of the mono camera.

We are having rain all this week so no chance for awhile

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Re: A few more captures from last week
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2016, 05:20:33 PM »
Yes, you are right the Histogram is the answer.

One of my wishes in the things-to-do in the Infinity soft is a better control of the Histogram, something like Artemis Capture has. A box number to put exactly the number I want into for the Black/Orange and White bars.

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