Hi, thank you for the interest!
Equipment:
As many 20s exposures as I could get that night.
I use Siril for processing, been enjoying manual preprocessing recently actually. I stack and then follow a general processing pipeline I like: BG extraction, Photometric colour cal, then starnet++ star removal.
I denoise in graxpert and back to Siril for stretching the data using GHS
I am sorry to say I can frequently be this friend...
Damn, you got me. Im sure its very important work your doing.
Tru tru
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!
I'm never leaving darktable again, lightroom can go suck an egg. I don't have to pay any more and the tool is better imo
No answer to your question is relevant, as there is no line where vandalising someone's shit becomes acceptable. Let alone based on someone's gut reaction that owning a particular car makes someone scum
Pasiphae would approve
Ahh that sucks
I feel incredibly lucky that I have a Bortle 5 in my garden, it would be so much harder if I needed to drive somewhere