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.
Taken with the FLI Kepler KL4040 at the Oregon Star Party July31-Aug2. 65 3-minute subs each Ha and O3. 16 darks, flats and biases. My first "serious" image with this camera under dark skies. This camera is highly sensitive but difficult to calibrate - Vincent was a GREAT help in getting an acceptable result!
Thanks, but it's your data so well done! Maybe, if I may, the background is a bit too dark and you used some de-noise tool I think which hurts the finer details in the nebula.
Thanks Vincent, god points. I tend to over-process. I'm redoing it to go to a grey background with a lighter smoothing touch and not much other processing. I'm also running a larger set of darks and biases (50 each) to improve calibration. Will post update later
Taken with the FLI Kepler KL4040 at the Oregon Star Party July31-Aug2. 65 3-minute subs each Ha and O3. 16 darks, flats and biases. My first "serious" image with this camera under dark skies. This camera is highly sensitive but difficult to calibrate - Vincent was a GREAT help in getting an acceptable result!
I share Vincent's argument, I think the background is a bit too dark and possibly clipped.. I prefer to process not so dark, if you do, fine details get lost very easily 😉
OK I ran some more darks and reprocessed from beginning. Combined in APP - looked at lots of LRGB settings, ended up R=Ha, Green = 25% Ha 75% O3 and Blue = O3. Very light touch on denoise (using Topaz AI) and set background to about 35 (scale of 0-255 photoshop levels). Hope it looks OK on the web and in jpg format
