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Cool, we can start a thread on it when one of us eventually gets one...just keep in mind that acquiring astrotoys takes time with me

Brian, this is a great adaptation you've surmised for calculating SNR according to where you're pointing in the sky. With regards to differential bortle scales depending on compass and altitude pointing, I agree with this conundrum. I don't think it accurate to account for a singular bortle scale va...

That's great Brian and as always, thank you kindly for the comprehensive answer. I stratified your corrected background ADU values into two groups: 8-10pm and 10-12pm and applied an unpaired, parametric t-test between the two and found a significant difference between the two groups. Here is the rep...

Brian, Did you acquire the L channel from 730pm to 1030pm? If so, could you inspect individual L frames and find out if you had an increase in background ADU over time, especially between 730 and 830pm, when you also mention that you acquired the Red channel during light polluting commuters. If ther...

Superb!

Looks great, have fun!

Thanks Brian, good luck to you too buddy.

Thanks Brian, appreciate it. I have a series of clear nights coming up and I'm debating whether to shoot more of M97 or switch to a new target. I'm limited however, to mostly the North Eastern part of the sky, due to surrounding apartment blocks, and there aren't many other nebulas up there right no...

I'm getting a coma corrector though, as the longer horizontal aspect of the sensor is picking up the coma in the stars and I don't have much of a field of view to begin with in order to crop them out.

Hi Dave,

I used Pixinsight to create the master light and then again Pixinsight to apply that master as a luminance layer over the previous data. From there on out, it was jumping between Pixinsight and Photoshop. I really liked how the red, green and blues came out in the nebula.

Cheers,
Minos