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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

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

Meanwhile I've been struggling to get an aesthetically pleasing result out of this other bunch of stars, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Plenty of data (about 8 hours 20 minutes of total exposure time) but it can't massage it into a pleasing JPEG. Maybe I just don't like the SMC.

#Astrophotography #Seestar30Pro #Seestar #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux #TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope

Meanwhile I've been struggling to get an aesthetically pleasing result out of this other bunch of stars, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Plenty of data (about 8 hours 20 minutes of total exposure time) but it can't massage it into a pleasing JPEG. Maybe I just don't like the SMC.

#Astrophotography #Seestar30Pro #Seestar #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux #TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope

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

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

Siril is an open source astrophotography image processing tool. Very actively developed, and it works well. Get it at: https://siril.org For Linux get the appimage.

#linux #opensource #foss #siril #astrophotography #astronomy #telescope #astronomie #photography

Siril is an open source astrophotography image processing tool. Very actively developed, and it works well. Get it at: https://siril.org For Linux get the appimage.

#linux #opensource #foss #siril #astrophotography #astronomy #telescope #astronomie #photography

💥 ✨ 🔭 😎
Comparando la intensidad de la supernova #SN2026sqf con el centro galáctico de #NGC3310.

Usando #Siril.

💥 ✨ 🔭 😎
Comparando la intensidad de la supernova #SN2026sqf con el centro galáctico de #NGC3310.

Usando #Siril.

💥 🌌 🔭 😮
Una supernova, una única estrella, en el último instante de su existencia, llega a iluminar más que toda la galaxia que la vio nacer.

Una fuerza colosal.

➡️ El 8 de julio de 2026 descubría Patrick Wiggins la supernova #SN2026sqf.

➡️ Juan ( @astrojaya4 ) alertaba a un grupo de amigos sobre la posibilidad de fotografiarla.

➡️ Miguel ( @astronorte_com ) desde el Observatorio El Rito realizaba serie de capturas.

Por acá lo hemos editado con #Siril.

¡Continuamos compartiendo estrellas!

💥 🌌 🔭 😮
Una supernova, una única estrella, en el último instante de su existencia, llega a iluminar más que toda la galaxia que la vio nacer.

Una fuerza colosal.

➡️ El 8 de julio de 2026 descubría Patrick Wiggins la supernova #SN2026sqf.

➡️ Juan ( @astrojaya4 ) alertaba a un grupo de amigos sobre la posibilidad de fotografiarla.

➡️ Miguel ( @astronorte_com ) desde el Observatorio El Rito realizaba serie de capturas.

Por acá lo hemos editado con #Siril.

¡Continuamos compartiendo estrellas!

So in the night I swung my ass on the bicycle and went to a place outside the village to do #astrophotography with no experience at all. After wasting a lot of time I made a single series of 100 shots. My first stack with #siril was a bit of a pain in the ass, but here it is. My first and simple stack without any big corrections.

I thought it will be much worse, because I just made the ‘lights’ shots, everything else had to be done today 😅huge thanks to @latuernich and @mechanical0815
Without your advices I would have wasted a night out in the dark 😬

For the next try I have a bit of more orientation what and how to do

So in the night I swung my ass on the bicycle and went to a place outside the village to do #astrophotography with no experience at all. After wasting a lot of time I made a single series of 100 shots. My first stack with #siril was a bit of a pain in the ass, but here it is. My first and simple stack without any big corrections.

I thought it will be much worse, because I just made the ‘lights’ shots, everything else had to be done today 😅huge thanks to @latuernich and @mechanical0815
Without your advices I would have wasted a night out in the dark 😬

For the next try I have a bit of more orientation what and how to do

Yay, first time done astrophotography using Siril for stacking and processing the images.

I took the pictures in my garden not caring about the trees and other stuff, just wanted to figure out how the processing in Siril works. Lights, darks, flats and biases, got them all.

The result: it works fine! I am quite happy, it's quite okay for the first time.

But maybe someone can help me out and tell me where those bright spots in the corners come from. Is it because my flats were not good (white paper against the window)? Or was it caused by surrounding light? Curious to know...

#Siril #astrophotography

Yay, first time done astrophotography using Siril for stacking and processing the images.

I took the pictures in my garden not caring about the trees and other stuff, just wanted to figure out how the processing in Siril works. Lights, darks, flats and biases, got them all.

The result: it works fine! I am quite happy, it's quite okay for the first time.

But maybe someone can help me out and tell me where those bright spots in the corners come from. Is it because my flats were not good (white paper against the window)? Or was it caused by surrounding light? Curious to know...

#Siril #astrophotography

As an astrophotography newbie I have to give the Siril astronomical image processing software an enormous amount of credit. Not only as a great example of free open source software that offers a genuine alternative to expensive commercial apps, but also for the quality of its documentation.

There's no "just ask questions on our Discord server instead" here! There is comprehensive written documentation online and it goes well beyond listing each function, it goes into detail of when and why to use them, how they work, and how to get the best results. And, if that's still not enough, you can buy the book! The lead developer has produced a 200 page A4 lavishly illustrated glossy guide book.

My copy arrived today, and I plan to pass the time waiting for clear skies by reading it.

https://siril.readthedocs.io

#Astrophotography #Siril #FOSS #OpenSource

As an astrophotography newbie I have to give the Siril astronomical image processing software an enormous amount of credit. Not only as a great example of free open source software that offers a genuine alternative to expensive commercial apps, but also for the quality of its documentation.

There's no "just ask questions on our Discord server instead" here! There is comprehensive written documentation online and it goes well beyond listing each function, it goes into detail of when and why to use them, how they work, and how to get the best results. And, if that's still not enough, you can buy the book! The lead developer has produced a 200 page A4 lavishly illustrated glossy guide book.

My copy arrived today, and I plan to pass the time waiting for clear skies by reading it.

https://siril.readthedocs.io

#Astrophotography #Siril #FOSS #OpenSource

That's better. I'm going to call this done now.

"Eta Carina in Context", all shot with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope (Seestar S30 Pro) from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7), mostly during full Moon, using the built in light pollution filter. Processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux.

50% scale version in this post, full resolution (6047×3411) here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-RXPkcWj/A

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

That's better. I'm going to call this done now.

"Eta Carina in Context", all shot with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope (Seestar S30 Pro) from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7), mostly during full Moon, using the built in light pollution filter. Processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux.

50% scale version in this post, full resolution (6047×3411) here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-RXPkcWj/A

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

That's better. I'm going to call this done now.

"Eta Carina in Context", all shot with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope (Seestar S30 Pro) from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7), mostly during full Moon, using the built in light pollution filter. Processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux.

50% scale version in this post, full resolution (6047×3411) here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-RXPkcWj/A

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

That's better. I'm going to call this done now.

"Eta Carina in Context", all shot with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope (Seestar S30 Pro) from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7), mostly during full Moon, using the built in light pollution filter. Processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux.

50% scale version in this post, full resolution (6047×3411) here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-RXPkcWj/A

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

That's better. I'm going to call this done now.

"Eta Carina in Context", all shot with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope (Seestar S30 Pro) from suburban Sydney (Bortle 7), mostly during full Moon, using the built in light pollution filter. Processing in Siril with SyQon and VeraLux.

50% scale version in this post, full resolution (6047×3411) here: https://drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Seeing-Stars/i-RXPkcWj/A

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

Next I decided to go back to the third target I ever pointed my Seestar at and reprocessed the data to see what difference 3 weeks of additional experience with Siril made.

This is the Prawn Nebula, IC 4628. The results are clearly different, though I'm not sure I could say the new version is definitely better. It might be best to tweak the stretches to get something in between the two, I think.

Interestingly on this image I found SyQon Prism Lite just wouldn't stop deleting faint stars along with the noise even with the strength turned way down, so I went back to VeraLux Silentium and it did a much better job of preserving faint stars while still doing a decent job on the noise. A reminder that it's sometimes worth trying several of the available algorithms/plugins/scripts to see which gives the best results on a given image.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

Next I decided to go back to the third target I ever pointed my Seestar at and reprocessed the data to see what difference 3 weeks of additional experience with Siril made.

This is the Prawn Nebula, IC 4628. The results are clearly different, though I'm not sure I could say the new version is definitely better. It might be best to tweak the stretches to get something in between the two, I think.

Interestingly on this image I found SyQon Prism Lite just wouldn't stop deleting faint stars along with the noise even with the strength turned way down, so I went back to VeraLux Silentium and it did a much better job of preserving faint stars while still doing a decent job on the noise. A reminder that it's sometimes worth trying several of the available algorithms/plugins/scripts to see which gives the best results on a given image.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

Next I decided to go back to the third target I ever pointed my Seestar at and reprocessed the data to see what difference 3 weeks of additional experience with Siril made.

This is the Prawn Nebula, IC 4628. The results are clearly different, though I'm not sure I could say the new version is definitely better. It might be best to tweak the stretches to get something in between the two, I think.

Interestingly on this image I found SyQon Prism Lite just wouldn't stop deleting faint stars along with the noise even with the strength turned way down, so I went back to VeraLux Silentium and it did a much better job of preserving faint stars while still doing a decent job on the noise. A reminder that it's sometimes worth trying several of the available algorithms/plugins/scripts to see which gives the best results on a given image.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

Next I decided to go back to the third target I ever pointed my Seestar at and reprocessed the data to see what difference 3 weeks of additional experience with Siril made.

This is the Prawn Nebula, IC 4628. The results are clearly different, though I'm not sure I could say the new version is definitely better. It might be best to tweak the stretches to get something in between the two, I think.

Interestingly on this image I found SyQon Prism Lite just wouldn't stop deleting faint stars along with the noise even with the strength turned way down, so I went back to VeraLux Silentium and it did a much better job of preserving faint stars while still doing a decent job on the noise. A reminder that it's sometimes worth trying several of the available algorithms/plugins/scripts to see which gives the best results on a given image.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

Next I decided to go back to the third target I ever pointed my Seestar at and reprocessed the data to see what difference 3 weeks of additional experience with Siril made.

This is the Prawn Nebula, IC 4628. The results are clearly different, though I'm not sure I could say the new version is definitely better. It might be best to tweak the stretches to get something in between the two, I think.

Interestingly on this image I found SyQon Prism Lite just wouldn't stop deleting faint stars along with the noise even with the strength turned way down, so I went back to VeraLux Silentium and it did a much better job of preserving faint stars while still doing a decent job on the noise. A reminder that it's sometimes worth trying several of the available algorithms/plugins/scripts to see which gives the best results on a given image.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

In the absence of new images I'm continuing to rummage through my Seestar reject bin to see if the fancy machine learning algorithms can salvage something from the less than ideal data sets.

This time it's a couple of reflection nebulae, the Blue Horsehead Nebula IC4592 and Sharpless 1 SH2-1. Both definitely needed a lot more exposure time and the results here still show it, but the processing has done an impressive job of pulling an image out of the noise.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

In the absence of new images I'm continuing to rummage through my Seestar reject bin to see if the fancy machine learning algorithms can salvage something from the less than ideal data sets.

This time it's a couple of reflection nebulae, the Blue Horsehead Nebula IC4592 and Sharpless 1 SH2-1. Both definitely needed a lot more exposure time and the results here still show it, but the processing has done an impressive job of pulling an image out of the noise.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

In the absence of new images I'm continuing to rummage through my Seestar reject bin to see if the fancy machine learning algorithms can salvage something from the less than ideal data sets.

This time it's a couple of reflection nebulae, the Blue Horsehead Nebula IC4592 and Sharpless 1 SH2-1. Both definitely needed a lot more exposure time and the results here still show it, but the processing has done an impressive job of pulling an image out of the noise.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

In the absence of new images I'm continuing to rummage through my Seestar reject bin to see if the fancy machine learning algorithms can salvage something from the less than ideal data sets.

This time it's a couple of reflection nebulae, the Blue Horsehead Nebula IC4592 and Sharpless 1 SH2-1. Both definitely needed a lot more exposure time and the results here still show it, but the processing has done an impressive job of pulling an image out of the noise.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

In the absence of new images I'm continuing to rummage through my Seestar reject bin to see if the fancy machine learning algorithms can salvage something from the less than ideal data sets.

This time it's a couple of reflection nebulae, the Blue Horsehead Nebula IC4592 and Sharpless 1 SH2-1. Both definitely needed a lot more exposure time and the results here still show it, but the processing has done an impressive job of pulling an image out of the noise.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

With little chance of any clear night skies in Sydney for at least the next week I've resorted to having a go at processing some previously taken data that I didn't have much hopes for.

This is the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293. While it's big as far as planetary nebulae go it's still a rather small target for a Seestar S30 Pro, and I also didn't have as much data as I would have liked (408 30 second exposures from two nights), so I really threw everything I could at it when it comes to processing.

Drizzle with a 1.5× upsampling in Siril, SyQon Parallax and Prism (free Nano versions) for sharpening and denoising, and Veralux Nox, HyperMetric Stretch & Revela for residual background removal, dynamic range compression and local contrast enhancement. I'm honestly amazed it came out this well, but think all the credit should go to the seriously impressive free software I used to do it.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

With little chance of any clear night skies in Sydney for at least the next week I've resorted to having a go at processing some previously taken data that I didn't have much hopes for.

This is the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293. While it's big as far as planetary nebulae go it's still a rather small target for a Seestar S30 Pro, and I also didn't have as much data as I would have liked (408 30 second exposures from two nights), so I really threw everything I could at it when it comes to processing.

Drizzle with a 1.5× upsampling in Siril, SyQon Parallax and Prism (free Nano versions) for sharpening and denoising, and Veralux Nox, HyperMetric Stretch & Revela for residual background removal, dynamic range compression and local contrast enhancement. I'm honestly amazed it came out this well, but think all the credit should go to the seriously impressive free software I used to do it.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

With little chance of any clear night skies in Sydney for at least the next week I've resorted to having a go at processing some previously taken data that I didn't have much hopes for.

This is the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293. While it's big as far as planetary nebulae go it's still a rather small target for a Seestar S30 Pro, and I also didn't have as much data as I would have liked (408 30 second exposures from two nights), so I really threw everything I could at it when it comes to processing.

Drizzle with a 1.5× upsampling in Siril, SyQon Parallax and Prism (free Nano versions) for sharpening and denoising, and Veralux Nox, HyperMetric Stretch & Revela for residual background removal, dynamic range compression and local contrast enhancement. I'm honestly amazed it came out this well, but think all the credit should go to the seriously impressive free software I used to do it.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

With little chance of any clear night skies in Sydney for at least the next week I've resorted to having a go at processing some previously taken data that I didn't have much hopes for.

This is the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293. While it's big as far as planetary nebulae go it's still a rather small target for a Seestar S30 Pro, and I also didn't have as much data as I would have liked (408 30 second exposures from two nights), so I really threw everything I could at it when it comes to processing.

Drizzle with a 1.5× upsampling in Siril, SyQon Parallax and Prism (free Nano versions) for sharpening and denoising, and Veralux Nox, HyperMetric Stretch & Revela for residual background removal, dynamic range compression and local contrast enhancement. I'm honestly amazed it came out this well, but think all the credit should go to the seriously impressive free software I used to do it.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

With little chance of any clear night skies in Sydney for at least the next week I've resorted to having a go at processing some previously taken data that I didn't have much hopes for.

This is the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293. While it's big as far as planetary nebulae go it's still a rather small target for a Seestar S30 Pro, and I also didn't have as much data as I would have liked (408 30 second exposures from two nights), so I really threw everything I could at it when it comes to processing.

Drizzle with a 1.5× upsampling in Siril, SyQon Parallax and Prism (free Nano versions) for sharpening and denoising, and Veralux Nox, HyperMetric Stretch & Revela for residual background removal, dynamic range compression and local contrast enhancement. I'm honestly amazed it came out this well, but think all the credit should go to the seriously impressive free software I used to do it.

#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #SyQon #VeraLux

All those images are done processing now so here's the result from last night in suburban Sydney: the Lobster and Cat's Paw Nebulae.

Just over 8 1/4 hours of total exposure time on the Seestar S30 Pro with light pollution filter, Bortle 7 skies + some moonlight, processing in Siril.

#TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril

All those images are done processing now so here's the result from last night in suburban Sydney: the Lobster and Cat's Paw Nebulae.

Just over 8 1/4 hours of total exposure time on the Seestar S30 Pro with light pollution filter, Bortle 7 skies + some moonlight, processing in Siril.

#TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril

All those images are done processing now so here's the result from last night in suburban Sydney: the Lobster and Cat's Paw Nebulae.

Just over 8 1/4 hours of total exposure time on the Seestar S30 Pro with light pollution filter, Bortle 7 skies + some moonlight, processing in Siril.

#TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril

All those images are done processing now so here's the result from last night in suburban Sydney: the Lobster and Cat's Paw Nebulae.

Just over 8 1/4 hours of total exposure time on the Seestar S30 Pro with light pollution filter, Bortle 7 skies + some moonlight, processing in Siril.

#TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril

All those images are done processing now so here's the result from last night in suburban Sydney: the Lobster and Cat's Paw Nebulae.

Just over 8 1/4 hours of total exposure time on the Seestar S30 Pro with light pollution filter, Bortle 7 skies + some moonlight, processing in Siril.

#TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astrophotography #Siril

And here is the end result: The Fighting Dragons of Ara.

This was definitely undercooked with just the images I took on the 12th June, but with the addition of lots more data from last night I'm happy with this now. In the end I had a total of 998 30 second exposures from the Seestar, 858 of which I allowed into the stack for a total exposure time of 7 hours 9 minutes.

Shot with my little Seestar S30 Pro in suburban Sydney using the Light Pollution filter, and processed in Siril with a mix of built in functions and VeraLux scripts.

#Astrophotography #Astronomy #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope

And here is the end result: The Fighting Dragons of Ara.

This was definitely undercooked with just the images I took on the 12th June, but with the addition of lots more data from last night I'm happy with this now. In the end I had a total of 998 30 second exposures from the Seestar, 858 of which I allowed into the stack for a total exposure time of 7 hours 9 minutes.

Shot with my little Seestar S30 Pro in suburban Sydney using the Light Pollution filter, and processed in Siril with a mix of built in functions and VeraLux scripts.

#Astrophotography #Astronomy #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Siril #TMMT #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope

As someone pretty new to astrophotography I've got to say that the new VeraLux Siril scripts by Riccardo Paterniti have been fantastically useful for me.

I've been happy doing preprocessing using built in Siril functions. 1st order polynomial background subtraction on the individual exposures, registration, culling bad exposures, stacking, photometric colour calibration, that's all good. Then comes the processing of the stacked image, and I'd be a bit lost without the VeraLux scripts.

VeraLux Silentium for noise reduction, then back to Siril built-ins for a bit of deconvolution sharpening, VeraLux Nox to remove any residual background, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch for dynamic range compression, VeraLux Revela to add some local contrast back to the details, then VeraLux Curves to fine tune the tone mapping. Maybe a final tweak to the histogram using the built in tools, then I'm done.

At most steps I only feel the need to make fairly minor adjustments to the default/automatic parameter values to get the look that I want.

#Astrophotography #Siril #VeraLux

As someone pretty new to astrophotography I've got to say that the new VeraLux Siril scripts by Riccardo Paterniti have been fantastically useful for me.

I've been happy doing preprocessing using built in Siril functions. 1st order polynomial background subtraction on the individual exposures, registration, culling bad exposures, stacking, photometric colour calibration, that's all good. Then comes the processing of the stacked image, and I'd be a bit lost without the VeraLux scripts.

VeraLux Silentium for noise reduction, then back to Siril built-ins for a bit of deconvolution sharpening, VeraLux Nox to remove any residual background, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch for dynamic range compression, VeraLux Revela to add some local contrast back to the details, then VeraLux Curves to fine tune the tone mapping. Maybe a final tweak to the histogram using the built in tools, then I'm done.

At most steps I only feel the need to make fairly minor adjustments to the default/automatic parameter values to get the look that I want.

#Astrophotography #Siril #VeraLux

As someone pretty new to astrophotography I've got to say that the new VeraLux Siril scripts by Riccardo Paterniti have been fantastically useful for me.

I've been happy doing preprocessing using built in Siril functions. 1st order polynomial background subtraction on the individual exposures, registration, culling bad exposures, stacking, photometric colour calibration, that's all good. Then comes the processing of the stacked image, and I'd be a bit lost without the VeraLux scripts.

VeraLux Silentium for noise reduction, then back to Siril built-ins for a bit of deconvolution sharpening, VeraLux Nox to remove any residual background, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch for dynamic range compression, VeraLux Revela to add some local contrast back to the details, then VeraLux Curves to fine tune the tone mapping. Maybe a final tweak to the histogram using the built in tools, then I'm done.

At most steps I only feel the need to make fairly minor adjustments to the default/automatic parameter values to get the look that I want.

#Astrophotography #Siril #VeraLux

As someone pretty new to astrophotography I've got to say that the new VeraLux Siril scripts by Riccardo Paterniti have been fantastically useful for me.

I've been happy doing preprocessing using built in Siril functions. 1st order polynomial background subtraction on the individual exposures, registration, culling bad exposures, stacking, photometric colour calibration, that's all good. Then comes the processing of the stacked image, and I'd be a bit lost without the VeraLux scripts.

VeraLux Silentium for noise reduction, then back to Siril built-ins for a bit of deconvolution sharpening, VeraLux Nox to remove any residual background, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch for dynamic range compression, VeraLux Revela to add some local contrast back to the details, then VeraLux Curves to fine tune the tone mapping. Maybe a final tweak to the histogram using the built in tools, then I'm done.

At most steps I only feel the need to make fairly minor adjustments to the default/automatic parameter values to get the look that I want.

#Astrophotography #Siril #VeraLux

As someone pretty new to astrophotography I've got to say that the new VeraLux Siril scripts by Riccardo Paterniti have been fantastically useful for me.

I've been happy doing preprocessing using built in Siril functions. 1st order polynomial background subtraction on the individual exposures, registration, culling bad exposures, stacking, photometric colour calibration, that's all good. Then comes the processing of the stacked image, and I'd be a bit lost without the VeraLux scripts.

VeraLux Silentium for noise reduction, then back to Siril built-ins for a bit of deconvolution sharpening, VeraLux Nox to remove any residual background, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch for dynamic range compression, VeraLux Revela to add some local contrast back to the details, then VeraLux Curves to fine tune the tone mapping. Maybe a final tweak to the histogram using the built in tools, then I'm done.

At most steps I only feel the need to make fairly minor adjustments to the default/automatic parameter values to get the look that I want.

#Astrophotography #Siril #VeraLux