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I wasn't satisfied with the background noise and star bloat in my last post, so I decided to go back and re-process my 1-hour Lagoon Nebula stack.

Used Starnet to pull the stars out of the image, switched to Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch to pull out faint dust lanes and background neutralization. Merged the stars back in as a separate layer in GIMP to control their brightness independently.

Equipment: F30070M 70/300 refractor f/4.3

Apple iPhone 7

Manual mount (1-hour total integration)

Bortle 5-6 skies

Processing: Siril, StarNet plugin, GIMP

I wasn't satisfied with the background noise and star bloat in my last post, so I decided to go back and re-process my 1-hour Lagoon Nebula stack.

Used Starnet to pull the stars out of the image, switched to Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch to pull out faint dust lanes and background neutralization. Merged the stars back in as a separate layer in GIMP to control their brightness independently.

Equipment: F30070M 70/300 refractor f/4.3

Apple iPhone 7

Manual mount (1-hour total integration)

Bortle 5-6 skies

Processing: Siril, StarNet plugin, GIMP

I wasn't satisfied with the background noise and star bloat in my last post, so I decided to go back and re-process my 1-hour Lagoon Nebula stack.

Used Starnet to pull the stars out of the image, switched to Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch to pull out faint dust lanes and background neutralization. Merged the stars back in as a separate layer in GIMP to control their brightness independently.

Equipment: F30070M 70/300 refractor f/4.3

Apple iPhone 7

Manual mount (1-hour total integration)

Bortle 5-6 skies

Processing: Siril, StarNet plugin, GIMP

Still learning astrophotography, but I managed to captured Messier 7 and 8 last night using:

F30070M 70/300 refractor

iPhone 7 afocal along with AstroShader

25mm eyepiece / 35 degree AFOV

Fixed tripod / untracked in Bortle 5-6 skies

60 x 1min total light livestacked ( 30 exposures, 2 sec exposure time, 1600 ISO )

Stacked in Siril, denoised in GIMP and subsequently edited in GIMP

Still learning astrophotography, but I managed to captured Messier 7 and 8 last night using:

F30070M 70/300 refractor

iPhone 7 afocal along with AstroShader

25mm eyepiece / 35 degree AFOV

Fixed tripod / untracked in Bortle 5-6 skies

60 x 1min total light livestacked ( 30 exposures, 2 sec exposure time, 1600 ISO )

Stacked in Siril, denoised in GIMP and subsequently edited in GIMP

Still learning astrophotography, but I managed to captured Messier 8 last night using:

F30070M 70/300 refractor

iPhone 7 afocal along with AstroShader

25mm eyepiece / 35 degree AFOV

Fixed tripod / untracked 60 light frames livestacked ( 30 exposures, 2 sec exposure time, 1600 ISO )

Stacked in Siril, denoised in GIMP and subsequently edited in GIMP

Checked Stellarium yesterday and noticed the ISS would pass above Orion's Sword from my location at around 7:49pm tonight, so I tried imaging it.

The clip scrolls through 4 captured frames showing the ISS progression across the FOV.

Shot with iPhone 7 using a small 70mm refractor.

Subsequently stacked in GIMP.

Managed to squeeze in a quick imaging session last night and surprisingly got decent results despite the light pollution..

Telescope: F30070M

Device: iPhone 7

Frames: 14 livestacked tiffs on AstroShader

Camera settings: 30 exposures, 2sec exposure time, 1600 iso

Stacked in Siril, denoised in GraXpert and subsequently edited in GIMP

My final stretch with the 10mm eyepiece.

After 3 nights of tracking from my rooftop (Bortle 5-6), I finished this 1hr 40mins integration. I wanted to see exactly how much signal I could pull from an iPhone 7 sensor before my new eyepiece arrives tomorrow.

Phone: iPhone 7

Telescope: F30070M

Mag: 30x

Total integration: ~1hr 43mins 116 frames (Each frame is a 40 exposure livestack in Astroshader)

Settings: 1.33s exposure time, ISO 1600

Stacked in Siril

Postprocessing in GraXpert + GIMP