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Sunflower Galaxy M63
▲ 48 r/astrophotography

Sunflower Galaxy M63

Certainly was not expecting this much detail out of a 250mm scope let alone my seeing conditions. 7 hours of integration, 84x300s subs. I am hooked on this target and will definitely be getting more integration.

Processed in PixInsight. Used WBPP with 2x drizzle, GraXPert to remove color cast and gradient, then cropped to native resolution. SPCC followed by BlurX correct only, StarX, GHS Stretch. Several GHS, Histogram, and Curves adjustments with various range masks. I also used HDRMT and LHE and a dash of blurx. Stretched stars with GHS and recombined with ImageBlend to produce final image.

Equipment: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi, William Optics RedCat 51 WIFD, ZWO ASI533MC Pro, William Optics Uniguide 120, ZWO ASI174MM Mini, SVBONY UV/IR Cut Filter

u/OrangeKitty21 — 14 hours ago
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Follow-up to a post I made a while ago: those who use forks of forks/lesser-known distros: do you trust their update repos?

Yet another reason I try to stay with “mainstream” Linux is because of the update repos some forks use. For me, putting all of your trust into a repository with little known about it, or its security, makes me feel uneasy. I feel that it is a security risk, mainly because you’re allowing arbitrary code to be downloaded and run on your machine. You might argue that since it’s open-source people are constantly auditing, which has some merit to it, but with these lesser known repos there are bound to be less people reviewing code, and more opportunities for bad actors. What do you think?

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u/OrangeKitty21 — 3 days ago