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Hi Ivo, Many thanks indeed for your response, and especially for sharing your process. As expected, your result is much better than my attempt, and it's highlighted a number of areas where my processing was incorrect! In particular: 1. I generally try not to bin if I can get away with it, to try to ...

Guys, The other day I obtained some NB data of NGC6820, followed by my usual process with APP before going on to process in Star Tools - however, I just can't seem to get a decent result, no matter what combination of settings I try! Admittedly, I haven't done any processing for a couple of months (...

Hi Ivo, Many thanks for your advice, which is super-useful as always, all noted .... I'll have another go using your suggestions as your end result certainly looks much better than mine! Yes, I'm using v. 1.6 - hadn't noticed that 1.7 is now available, so I'll download that and try again. Many thanks

Not the best ever done, but here's my final effort at last!:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iuvyguw2ylnig ... a.tif?dl=0

Thanks to those who may have looked at my cry for help earlier!

Richard

Guys, I think I may need to stand corrected! It would appear I obviously didn't try everything I could have - I just had another go at re-processing the data again, this time being much more careful/selective with things like strengths, gradients, etc. in various modules along the way, as well as pa...

Guys, Touching base to see if anyone out there might be able to point me in the right direction with my attempts to process some NB for IC1396. FYI, stacked files can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4iugbjap6fms89v/AAA7ZBYTz1On2NJ5dEarBKkza?dl=0 Each file consists of 2 hrs worth of data, s...

Hi Ivo, Thanks for your advice, and your concerns are duly noted! Regarding my previous issue with star colours, etc. I wonder if that RGB data may not have been the best in that case? To be fair, I haven't needed to do that for some time ..... If I have a similar problem in future I may shout out t...

Hi Paul, Here's my attempt at the Western Veil + Pickering's Triangle - not sure if this link will show an image here (still trying to figure out how to correctly upload an image into my posts!). All done, as described, with APP and Star Tools ... https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pz78tta7xff6dw0/AAA1wZsql...

Hi Paul, Only use APP's 'remove light pollution' on the tools menu, nothing else on that tab really benefits over what Star Tools can then subsequently offer - works for me, at least. That said, I have on occasion used APP's 'calibrate star colours' and 'combine RGB' tools when I have some data that...

Hi there! I've not made many posts on the forum so far, so this is an opportunity for me to address that. Great advice and workflow from hixx, with a few 'exceptions' I'd like to add to the mix which might help to assist someone. Brief history - I started in astrophotography around the beginning of ...