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OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-vjXSLcv/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-vjXSLcv/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-vjXSLcv/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-vjXSLcv/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-vjXSLcv/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

Another glow up, though this time I also had some additional data to add to the stack as well as updated processing methods.

It's the Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

Applied the same compositing tricks and other learnings to reprocess my image of the Dragons of Ara. It's the same data underlying these two versions, the only difference is in the processing.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

I finally succumbed to temptation and tried using compositing when (re)processing some of my images of nebulae. For this image of the Eagle and Swan Nebulae I removed the stars, fiddled with the nebulae only image, then mixed just a little of the stars back in. It's cheating, in a way, but a pretty common astrophotography workflow.

All data (just over 5 1/2 hours worth) from my Seestar S30 Pro, processed in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Yeah, I'm trying out the RC Astro stuff too, using the 30 day free trial.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

I got a bit more exposure time on the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex tonight and then reprocessed all the data.

This 4 panel mosaic now has a total of about 19 hours of exposure time with my Seestar S30 Pro in it, shot from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7). All processing in Siril with SyQon, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Orientation is north right, east left because it fits on computer monitors better that way.

At this point I think I'm going to call this done, at least for the near future. To do appreciably better with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope I think I'd need to get a *lot* of exposure time from a darker site.

Full resolution here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-nLFdZKq/A

#Astrophotography #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #GraXpert #VeraLux

Right, this was a challenging image mosaic to process!

It the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, near the bright yellow star Antares (upper left) and Crab Globular Cluster, M4 (lower left).

It's a 4 panel mosaic with a grand total of 8 hours exposure time with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope, taken over two nights from suburban Sydney before the Moon rose. This would definitely benefit from a *lot* more exposure time (and darker skies) but this will do for now. All processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux scripts. It took a bit of trial and error to iron out the residual sky background gradients but I got most of the way there in the end. It's oriented north right, east left because it fits on computer monitors better that way.

Full resolution version here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-hdHKKGF/A

#Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Astrophotography #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

Well this came out better than I expected. It's NGC300 as seen with just under 3 hours of total exposure time on the Thirty Millimetre Telescope (Seestar S30 Pro), taken from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7) while the Moon was up.

Galaxies are not what this telescope is best at, but I wanted to try this one anyway as I feel a personal connection to it. It was the first target that we pointed the first "Huntsman Eye" single lens prototype of the Huntsman Telescope at during our first observing run. It is also the official deep sky object of the Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant in Coonabarabran, near Siding Spring Observatory.

Processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux scripts.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

And now the Prawn Nebula gets a similar treatment. For this one I had a little over 1000 30 second exposures in the bank, and put 600 of the best into the stack.

Seestar S30 Pro with dual narrowband light pollution filter, all processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux scripts.

#TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

After much farting about in Siril I now have my version of the Lagoon, Triffid and Chinese Dragon nebulae. It's certainly different to the results from the Seestar app, and overall I think I prefer this version. Plus it's more satisfying doing it this way!

To get the best possible result I dug up all the data I had on this target (almost 1000 30 second exposures) and selected 560 of the best to stack together. Some were taken in Kurrajong with lower sky background but worse focus, while most were taken from Sydney with measurably more sky background (despite the light pollution filter) but better focus.

All processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux scripts.

#TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

The Helix Nebula.

This is more of a target for bigger telescopes really, but I have been curious about what the little Thirty Millimetre Telescope could do with it. Between last night's data and a smaller stash I'd previously taken I put a little over 8 hours worth of 30 second LP filter exposures into the stack. All processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux scripts.

It would probably benefit from even more exposure time, but the Seestar was already well into the diminishing returns domain as it was and I'm not sure it's going to get dramatically better no matter how long I go.

https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-VqQVR3M/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

This is the nicest photo I've ever taken of a bunch of dust.

This image of part of Corona Australis includes the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, one of the nearest star formation regions to Earth.

Turns out this is a challenging target for the Thirty Millimetre Telescope, especially when the Moon is up! I put a total of 14.3 hours of exposure time into a 3 panel mosaic and I still think I need to revisit this target with some darker skies (and better flat field calibrations) to do a better job of it. I'm calling this a work in progress until then.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

My god, it's full of stars.

M24, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, and neighbouring bits and pieces. Just over 4 hours 10 minutes of total exposure time over the last two nights with the little Seestar S30 Pro and its UV/IR cut filter. Not bad considered how irritatingly bright the Moon was being at the time. Processed in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux scripts.

I should have been using the light pollution filter under conditions like that, but I've already done all the big HII regions that are conveniently placed at this time of year so I've been trying to do stars and dust despite the Moon.

Edit: Full res, with *all* the stars, here https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-B7XMtVm/A

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #VeraLux #SyQon #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #TMMT