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"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09, Ed Astle
"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09, Ed Astle

"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09, Ed Astle
"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09, Ed Astle

"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Another attempt at bringing those faint ghostly proms to justice.
15% of 10 seconds stacked (1100 frames). I figured slightly more % helps with these faint ones.

I capture/process in 16-bit mode as there's only a small difference between 8 and 16 (125 fps vs 110 fps).
The Player One Apollo M-MAX is 12-bit. That's an extra 16x latitude which helps with large tonal differences, sometimes.

I need to tweak my Daystar Interference Eliminator to totally remove the Newton Rings.
They only appeared after the processing required to tease out the "pillar".

For reference the GONG image is here: https://gong2.nso.edu/HA/hag/202406/20240621/20240621170902Bh.jpg

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"Pillar" - South West Limb 2024/06/21 17:09, Ed Astle

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