u/Azkicat

2 stacks: 1st normal 800x20s, 2nd 650x20s with drizzle

processed in siril and photoshop

350x20s

processed in siril

630x20s eq s50

processed in siril:

1. seestar preprocessing script
2. veralux nox
3. veralux alchemy
4. veralux stretch
5. starnet++
6. cosmic clarity sharpen on starless (0.3-0.4)
7. graxpert bge 0.78
8. graxpert denoise 0.7
9. cosmic clarity sharpen 0.5
10. veralux revela
11. some finishing veralux curves
12. assign color profile
13. finishing touches and mask in lightroom

Gear:

• Camera: Canon EOS RP
• Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 200mm
• Mount: Hand-built equatorial mount with tracking
• Subs: 201 × 10s, f/2.8, ISO 3200
• Total integration: 33.5 minutes
• Location: bortle 5
• Date: May 3, 2026

Processed in siril:

• Stacked with Average + Winsorized Sigma Clipping
• Gradient removal with GraXpert
• Photometric color calibration
• Star removal with StarNet++ to process stars and galaxy separately
• Denoising with graxpert
• Stretching with GHS (Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch) and Veralux
• Recombined stars + starless, final touches on saturation and contra

Spent week making this. Used broken eq3 as a base. Fixed it and modified the way I needed. Then added a motor for gc2 mount through DIY adapter. At 200mm 10s stars are round. Proud of myself

1260x30s total

stacked in seestar (lost subs), processed with siril

Enormous amount of starlink satellites

250x20s

processed with siril

830x10s seestar s50

processed with Siril/veralux/graxpert/starnet/lightroom

weather was bad, maybe retake