I’ve had mine for a little over a week and still working out the guide settings. My guiding has been erratic and kinda crappy. Periodic error has been pretty severe so far. I shoot 5 minute exposures and every other image is slightly worse, which I think is from the PE. My chart gave a number of 19+ and I was not thrilled with that.

Agean astro has 16 original am5 for 500 dollars off.

At last!!! A simple Pixinsight walk through that actually works and gives brilliant results - Many Thanks Chad !!!

Excellent review but you miss the mark on who the target market is. While it's an expensive purchase, I don't have the time for a piece-by-piece build of a better scope kit, nor do I have the time to devote to the software side and all the image processing. It's for people like me, who really, really want to capture their own DSO images but need a set-and-forget device. Now, is it better (a full 8x better?) than the small devices that are ~$500? That's arguable and an issue I'm still struggling with.

please where do I download the Combine Images v1.7 script? Thank you

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1 year after this vid and im having issues with the flip 😂. And zwo is still failing with their qc on updates

Would I buy an IMX585 Pro....Yes. Would I buy anything from ZWO.....no absolutely not. Player On Uranus-C - better quality, better performance, better price.

What an incredible workflow. Thanks so much for the tutorial! ❤

Great video thank you very much 😃 this might sound like a stupid question but i am guessing this would replace your dust cover so would enable you to take darks and bias frames also. I did hear you mention dark flats but i have no idea about those at the moment...lol 🤣

That was really quite nice. Wondering if you could apply a mask before adding Orton to protect the areas you don’t want effect applied? Wouldn’t have to un-paint if so. I saw Bill’s comment, definitely want to check out his script. Cheers! Doug

Maybe a stupid question, but do you need to take new flats and darks for every session? If so, why, as long as you use the same setup? Cheers

Dude, you need to kill that smoke, lol

Thanks!

You call this begginers tutorial??? 🙀🤯 I'm at the screen transfer level in PI, haha - bookmarking this for later though

Even if it is not the end of the world that Norton glow (I like it btw) it is always great to have new scripts coming out Thx

You can do this with Image Blend. Put the same image in both layers, screen mode, blur the second image with the blur filter and play with opacity. I will try adding Blur Exterminator. Thanks.

If you want to make your DSO image glow, I can send you a pixel math script I've had for a few years now, but it'll do a lot more and it's drag and drop

Easy? Oh lord, im too stupid for all this

Huge noticeable difference when your process is followed. Do you run this as the very final step before saving the image?

Great tutorial Chad! You have a new subscriber now after your great video on dark nebulae. Recently I also started to present the stars more prominent then before. Good stars make a picture much deeper.

Great start for a channel, greetings from Germany😊 and CS

I was one of the first 30 scopes out there and it is truly an amazing thing. One thing we say is the discord server might be the best thing about it. It’s active all night, people sharing Nina setups, sharing images and the nightly guiding challenge. I’ve learned so much and feel my Astro has stepped up in the month and a half I’ve been out there. I’ve also jumped up the integration time on targets from 3-4 hours into the 15 hours because it’s so available, log into your system, setup your target and let it roll, chill on the discord for a bit and go to bed. You can easily spend 4 nights on a single target and not feel like you are repeating yourself. Highly recommend signing up

$4000 for that? It better mow the lawn,do the dishes,grocery shop for me.

I do all my sharpening whether it be with MLT, BlurX, etc before putting the stars back. Stars r always my very last step because these process seem to affect them in one way or another.

Thanks, Chad. I will give this a try as soon as my sky clears out, whenever that will be. Clear skies

I used to use this method, too, but found BXT affected the stars even if you reduce the influence to 0. This is very likely because BXT simply understands stars as statistics and statistics always have margins of error. You can run BXT without the stars in the image and get great results. It then becomes an AI powered unsharp tool and works great.

Hey at time 5:13 you when from making small star's with BlurXT to Stars taken out? I guess you used StarXT to remove correct?

what the... i dont even have the menu on the bottom left corner

I'm not sure why this was in my feed, I don't even know enough about image editing to understand 80% of the technical terms you use, but I found it interesting! Do you do these professionally or is it a hobby? I would have assumed there was some kind of premade filter in photoshop or something that would just do everything you did here automagically, but I obviously have no idea what I'm talking about. 😊

Yes. We need stars, beautiful stars. 👍

Fantastic tutorial. I actually preferred the image where there were no stars around the nebula. Keep up the great work Chad and clear skies.

@easyastroimages5818 I would be interested in this camera but I have doubts about the telescope. Would it go better with an evostar 72 ed or a TS-optics Photoline 60 apo? Thanks :)

After 2.5years I still struggle with star color. There are plenty of yellow stars but almost no blue stars which I think is needed to get a beautiful star field.

Please do more tutorials on AF 2…

Thats really cool. I like this idea a lot.

Yes I have it and it is great…also the associated JR Astro Macros that you can get for this software.

Hi Chad, Good tutorial on star reduction, or perhaps, star not-reduction. There are so many tools in Pixinsight that it is so easy to become overwhelmed, and yet, you brought out several features I did not know about that I now want to experiment with. Good final image. - Patrick -

thank you very much for this tuto, and if you can sharing the file data again, because the link is broken

I have had a Celestron C6-A XLT and a Hyperstar 6 v4 for 4 months, now. And, I am still using my refractor.

Great video But any work I do with star stretching looks to fake to me to perfect round shape I like them to glow

It is a good deal, in the future people from the place should all collaborate in one single target get over 1000 hours of data that would be cool. Im thinking in future everyone their can work together and do some amazing images and discoveries

Love the video and your cat is adorable😻😻. I am a newbie to astrophotography, and I was torn between the AM5N vs iOptron GEM45. So I have a question about AM5N which one is beginner-friendly?

A little confused as to why you color correct one image and save it then open the original pure red file in affinity?

Hi Thank you for your nice tutorials. I live in France north of Lyon I own a Skywatcher EQ6R mount and my project in the very near future is to switch to an AM5N mount. Today everything is controlled via NINA I have also installed Green Swamp Server (specific to Skywatcher and Orion mounts), the full ASCOM suite and several drivers on my pc. Everything runs smoothly... Here is my question : with the new ZWO AMN5N which kind of drivers/software do I have to install as Green Swamp Server will no longer be useful. Also confirm NINA on a pc will control adequately a ZWO AM5. I don't want to use a tablet and continue with my pc. Which drivers/softwares, shall I install ? Your help is very appreciated Jean Pierre Dorte

I have never had a WIFI issue with my Evolution mount. Purchased 10/23.

Hi Chad! Awesome video. A tip that I’ve come across with the magenta ish color cast is to run the correct magenta stars script. It really helps me when I run into thag type of trouble! Like I said I love the content!

Yep I have a difficult name, sorry I did not choose it LOL

If you want to stay even easier with linear fit, dont split your channels and just do Scripts->Toolbox->AutoLinearFit. It does all that splitting and recombining for you!

Buyed immediately after your video. I’ve used non-pro version for DSO with great results. Thank you for your video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻