NGC 281
44x 180s lights
15x 180s dark
50x bias
using clear glass
Atik 314L+
stacked and processed in Siril (auto stretched as I do not have PixInsight on the laptop)
This time I used 100% Pixinsight to stack the frames and stretch it. I think the stacking is way better than Siril (hardly a comparison between the two software really)
The CEM25p is not live yet, those pictures are with the equipment in my signature.
I will of course post lots of info about my new mount once I start using it.
Really nice pic, though, I am really not sure the stacking by Siril is so bad. Pixinsight seems to just do a better job at normalization of the background as black. Also, looks like Pixinsight has a bit of unsharp masking applied. I am curious if you could not obtain similar results with some setting changes to Siril. Anyhow, very nice.
I know we can't really compare Siril and PixInsight, but I've found Siril (latest stable and beta version) to be really sluggish on my Mac (mac mini and laptop).
Maybe I haven't done something correctly on Siril, but I think I'm going to stick to PixInsight for the time being and learn more about it (after all, it's not a free software...).