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. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hi,
After some experimenting I could finish processing this image, 10x300s RGB frames with darks and flats on a Skywatcher Esprit80 APO. I am now more confident using the Tools part of APP, it was helping to remove some light pollution gradient from the final image. I used Unity gain with the camera, this gives more noise than usual.
I have 18,5 mag skies where I live, so don't expect wonders 😉
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Cheers,
Janos
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I can see at least three other faint galaxies in there as well. I hear ya about the light pollution, but I think you got a very good result. I think some additional time on target will really make a difference.Â
I can see at least three other faint galaxies in there as well. I hear ya about the light pollution, but I think you got a very good result. I think some additional time on target will really make a difference.Â
Thanks Scott,
The 3 galaxies are around mag 14-15, I have checked in Skytools 3. Next time I will try to add more lights, specially because full moon is now over ;-). I will post it whenever it succeeds,
Clear skies,
Janos
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Hi Janos,
it's already very nice, I agree with Scott.
Adding more data is very interesting for the field of view. There are lots of faint and distant galaxies to be shown if you increase total exposure time 😉
Mabula
