Got this one yesterday evening.
I’m still not entirely sure how all of this post processing stuff works because the results I get after processing are often much, much different than what I’m seeing in the original images. For example, here’s what the original image looked like before processing.
I’m still very, very impressed with the results from this scope even before processing the images. I’m getting better images with this little scope than I ever saw with my huge 11″ Celestron
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The standard image is still impressive, considering it is 25 million light years away. I looked it up of course. 😉
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was just doing some research on the software I’ve been using and it seems the results are indeed too good to be true as I suspected. It’s apparently been using AI processing in the background that might indeed be doing things like pulling information from other astronomical images it was “trained” on (i.e. stolen from other sources) to insert things into the images that my original data did not include. I’m going to need get software designed specifically for astrophotography processing like Siril or Pixinsight that restricts itself to using only the actual data captured by the images.
As you said though the standard, unprocessed image is impressive by itself, especially with the poor seeing conditions I have here. I can’t wait to get this thing out to my sister in law’s farm to try it somewhere the skies are relatively dark. As if light pollution here wasn’t bad enough already, the guy behind me now put up a flagpole lighted by a ring of LEDs at the top to mess things up even more. Sigh.
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Some neighbours are never happy unless their houses are lit up like a stadium during a night game.
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Exactly. And I never really understood why. I understand having lighting for security reasons, but even that doesn’t need to be on all the time. I have outside lights for security reasons too but they’re all on motion detectors. What’s the point in lighting up your whole yard when you and everyone else is asleep and no one’s actually looking at it? People are weird.
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