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by nightowl929
Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:22 pm
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: M81/M82 Processing
Replies: 5
Views: 8372

Re: M81/M82 Processing

Guy, The weather has been pretty rough around here but I was finally able to make another go at M81 and M82. The moon was nearly full, but given it was the only time we had a break in the clouds I figured I'd see what red zone + the moon would do to me. The below is 50x240s at ISO 400 across two nig...
by nightowl929
Wed Jan 04, 2017 5:13 pm
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: M81/M82 Processing
Replies: 5
Views: 8372

Re: M81/M82 Processing

ChrisLX200 - I tried increasing the Dark Anomaly Filter during Wipe but that didn't make a difference.

Rowland - I was already using the 25% binning setting. Sounds like more subframes are in order. Just as soon as the clouds cooperate.

Thanks for the responses!
by nightowl929
Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:20 pm
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: M81/M82 Processing
Replies: 5
Views: 8372

M81/M82 Processing

I'm still fairly new to post-processing and am trying to figure out what I'm looking at and what needs to be done to correct it. I took some images of M81/M82 a couple days ago with an 8" SCT (f/6.3 reducer) in a heavily light polluted area. Canon T3i DSLR at ISO 800, 15 exposures of 180 seconds eac...