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Doing it 'the wrong way' seems to be the way to go. At work they always say that doing it wrong is what I do best... :roll: I wonder if this could be a problem for the tracking feature of StarTools. :think: But at least, there doesn't seem to be any visible negative impact. If I remember correctly,...

Hi Dietmar, here's what I came up with: MonkeyHeadNBA.jpg As I said after the final stretch I went straight to Color and then to NBAccent. Afterwards I visited the common modules and used mostly defaults. I think it contains a bit more details than the broadband only version while matching the color...

I am always doing it the wrong way, i.e. after the final stretch I go straight to color and from there to NBAccent. Afterwards I go through the modules like Contrast etc. So some detail should be from NB. But maybe I just misjudged the datasets. If you want to share the stacks I give it a try. Regar...

This image

https://app.astrobin.com/i/w3po4i

also contained only about two hours of broadband with a DSLR (a bit more NB though than your monkey head) and the NBAccent rendition turned out MUCH better than either broadband or Duo NB only. I am pretty confident in this regard...

Regards
Stefan

Hi Dietmar, both renditions look very nice. Lots of details in both of them, even in the broadband only version with its minimal processing. I am really wondering if NBAccent wouldn't be worth a shot. Did you try? You could maybe get the best of both worlds. The punch and detail of NB and coloring o...

Yes, I used SVDecon (mostly default) and shrink (15 iterations with Tighten; throttled up on Color Tame and Halo Extend). Usually, very small stars are further reduced by SuperStructure's DimSmall.

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Stefan

Surprisingly I got two nights during this new moon phase. Initially it was about four nights which had been forecasted but I try hard not to complain :? I went for the Boogeyman Nebula. There are so many great images of this object out there so I had to try. Suspiciously many of them are from really...

Hi Ron, very good image. Stars are looking great. I don't consider layering to be cheating. I am surprised how natural the result looks. Well done. Would you mind sharing the two original images used for layering? Would be interesting to see how that looked like. How are your experiences with the l-...

Thanks for your kind comments, Dietmar. The flame is nicely coloured - I think I remember a thread where colour was off after using NBAccent. :think: Yes, I also remembered that one. Which was the reason I initially didn't want to "waste" precious clear sky time on the flame with duo NB. I finished ...

With half a clear night I was able to add 4 hrs of duo NB data to the image and process it via NBAccent. It really paid off in my eyes. It is actually a completely different image... https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/3akHlpKd_EN1_16536x0_ieTZ0INm.jpg Well, Alnitak is still Alnitak but it could be wors...