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Taken with my ES102, ASI294MC and Lenhance filter. Processed in StarTools using Compose OSC load method.

Nice Job, Those are nice tight stars for an SCT. What sort of SCT is it?, Edge or just regular?

M1 Crab Nebula came out suprisingly well with my uncooled ASI784MC on ES102. I used a gain of 400! and Dithered to avoid noise and the stacked in DSS using a 2x Drizzel. I then binned at 50% in Startools.
130x60" (gain: 400.00) bin 2x2

I did try my unmoded canon 2000d without filters and the level of detail was much less, especially the Ha which hardly showed up at all. I also tried the DSLR with an Astronomix CLS clip in filter, which was even worse with distorted colour balance that I could not fix in processing. My OSC is coole...

Taken while on holiday in La Gomera, Canary Islands. Dark skies but overlit hotel
Standard Stsartools workflow brought out all the detail I needed, particularly HAlpha for Barnards Loop.

Max

How do I get STReplay?

Cannot see a link in this forum or on the STReplay links page?
Max

Just got a new PC that runs Startools much faster and first subject was M33

https://astrob.in/zeie20/0/

Max

As per my other post just ran latest StarTools-Windows64-AVX2 on my new AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200MHz with a 4072x2747 image and its pretty quick with no issues running through all the main modules.

Max

Ok, so I decided to go for it and got a PC with: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4) RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200MHz M.2 SSD Drive 1TB CORSAIR MP600 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 4950MB/R, 4250MB/W) Storage: 6TB SEAGATE 7200 RPM 256MB CACHE CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4) , RAM: 64GB DDR...

Sorry, one more question, does M.2 SSD Drive improve speed compared to SSD drive, if so how much is worth having??

Max