UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
A 4.6 hour stack (60 s subs) of M106 and accompanying faint fuzzies stacked, calibrated and processed entirely with APP. This will get many more hours of data next year, but with such a wide field (86 mm APO, 460 mm FL, 1.7"/pixel) I am always surprised how well a full (and only) APP process does. The star calibration is always excellent changing DPP parameters has improved the data compared to several completed photoshop layering and masking processes, since the faint level of the galaxy halo in this case did not get any additional noise. For other targets such as nebulae, some PS does help in wide field, but I will be curious about star reduction routines to come to APP.
This was created without any flats or flatdarks, and calibrated using darks and BPM if course. Next year with 4 times more data, APP will likely render it the way I like, smooth and natural with just the right amount of color saturation from a OSC camera with no filters, as was the case here. More integration will remove the need for me to attempt to use of high pass filter, deconvolution etc. to extra galaxy detail at this small target size scale. Anyway, using APP for 95% of my processing is a breath of fresh air 👍
Beautiful result (I love galaxies personally) and great to hear it's working out so well for you!
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And with some very distant objects identified. LEDA 213956 is 10.05 billion ly away, quite amazing.
Indeed, I love to do that as well, many times I find that background searching even more interesting than my main object. 🙂
@cwm2col A very nice image and yes there is a lot in the image.
