Forgot to alt text, it's hot fuzz. They're sitting in the car, eating their ice cream cones.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18

I haven’t tried rolling back drivers on Arch yet. I should try that though

Still haven’t figured out a workaround to get PixInsight to launch. My hope is that there’s a new nvidia driver soon and that is the actual fix. I don’t really want to have to work off of my MacBook or reinstall windows or something

I updated my Nvidia drivers and PixInsight is just crashing on boot now... great. I was hoping to reprocess a couple shots from a couple months ago but I guess I just have to wait for a new driver to come out. Anyone else having issues with launching PI w/ nvidia-open-dkms 595.58.03-1?

A DLSS5 ON/OFF meme where with off, the ram costs 99 dollars, with on 700.

The Pinwheel galaxy, is aptly named. It is a head on view of a spiral galaxy whose many arms resemble those from a pinwheel. Its core is a yellow-red and blue arms spiral out with magenta pink dots along the lengths. Towards the core are subtle dark dust lanes that spiderweb out to the inner sections of the arms.

M101 - The Pinwheel galaxy. I can see some artifacts that need to be cleaned up with more data. I'll probably need another 15-20 hours collecting data before I think I can truly give this target justice. We'll see if I can find time in the schedule.

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The Orion Nebula is in the center of the frame, it has a bright white core from where I overexposed the data. The center is surrounded by rich magentas and violet clouds with deep, dark dust lanes extending from the center. The Running Man is present in this frame as well, sitting just above and to the right of the Orion Nebula, it shares the majority of the same colors, but they are more subtle and the magenta reds hide behind the much paler violet blues

I promise this is my last version upload of the Orion Nebula for the year (probably). I combined my 15 hours of narrowband and the 2 hours of broadband data into a single image. I spent a lot more time isolating the dust from the background.

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Looks like my M101 finished capturing last night so it's time to preprocess. With any luck I'll have some time to give it a full process today.

Up to this point it's very scientific and representative of just the raw photons that came in. Once it stretches it's artistic interpretation. So I play with contrast, color balance, and refine it until I'm happy with it.

Galaxies are much closer to their true appearance than a normal nebula shot.

I should clarify the process though just to convey what I've done here. This isn't a single picture, this is a combination of 15 hours worth of data. Even with all that data it's barely visible and it needs to be stretched to be visible. So the colors get balanced according to reference data.

I turned up the saturation a bit to make the dynamic nature of the colors stand out. Unaltered, it still has the colors though to some extent.

As to why it has the colors, I'm not sure what's happening in those arms. Could just be the age and composition of the stars in the galaxy.

Damn, I missed getting a screenshot at 666 followers.

Thanks! Coming soon! No hard date yet but I’m working on setting up a store soon!

NGC 5195 - Wikipedia

I believe it’s swallowing the neighboring dwarf galaxy. The wiki page for the smaller galaxy has a whole section on their interactions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5195

The Whirlpool galaxy has a warm yellow/white core with two distinct, predominantly blue arms with red dust lanes running down the length. At the tip of the arm that ends on the left side of the frame is a dwarf galaxy whose stars appear to be flung away from its core and pulled into the Whirlpool galaxy itself.

I spent a couple nights looking at the Whirlpool galaxy. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. I had a blend of 3 min subs and 10 min subs on the luminance to try bring out as much of the shell as possible and I think it worked.

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It all used to live in my backyard dome, but I got tired of waiting for clear skies.

Yep, I have the Epsilon 160. It's such a beast, I love it. I almost picked up the 180 instead but I didn't want to repurchase all of my filters since it would have needed the "fast" variant.

Here’s mine. It’s down in Texas at Starfront right now.

Re-uploaded to include the alt text. I really wish that Bluesky would allow edits of the alt text after the post.

Two large galaxies are present in the image with a number of background galaxies in the smaller details. The larger of the two galaxies is referred to as the whale. It is an edge on view of a bulging disk, shaped in such a way that it sort of resembles the profile view of a whale. It has a smaller dwarf galaxy accompanying it that almost appears like a dorsal fin. The Whale is mostly blue in color with dark brownish read dust lanes dotting the length. The other galaxy, the hockey stick, sort of resembles its namesake with a curved hooking end at the end of a long shaft. They hockey stick is slightly more blue than the whale.

I processed the Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies the other day. I love the colors that I was able to pull out in the whale. I think there’s the tiniest hint of IFN in the background, maybe I’ll come back and do some 10min subs on the lum to try pulling it out.

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Crap I forgot the alt text.

Yeah the extra detail gained from the Sii is a huge perk. I was probably too hasty in thinking it wasn’t worth posting.

A green and yellow nebula structure. The right side of the frame resembles a jellyfish with whiteish tendrils evoking a jellyfish's tentacles. The left side of the yellow nebula has soft smooth gradients of red yellow and green that are broken by deep, dark structures.

Can’t say I didn’t warn you. It’s difficult to look at. I do like the greens in it though.

A strikingly red nebula structure. The right side of the frame resembles a jellyfish with white tendrils evoking a jellyfish's tentacles. The left side of the red nebula has soft smooth gradients of red that are broken by deep, dark structures.

The Jellyfish nebula in HOO. The signal in this one is pretty hard to tame. The Ha is just so strong compared to everything else. The SHO version kind of looked like radioactive mountain dew colored piss and I'd rather just spare you all from seeing that... unless....

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The Cigar galaxy. The main disk of the Cigar appears as a diagonal line, as the galaxy is edge-on to earth. There are red clouds jutting out in a cone-like spray from the center perpendicular to the disk.

Bode's Galaxy. It is a spiral with two well defined arms. These arms are a violet/blue and are dotted with pink/magenta the closer you get to the galactic core. The core of the galaxy has dark dust lanes that contrast with the bright core.

And while I'm at it, here are some close crops of the Cigar and Bodes galaxies.

Bode's Galaxy is in the very center of the frame, it is a spiral galaxy with two distinct arms. These arms are blue with dots of magenta throughout. Above and to the right is the Cigar Galaxy. It's smaller than Bodes and is edge on to us, but, it does have red clouds jetting out from the center. There is IFN (integrated flux nebula) throughout the frame. It appears as wispy greyish clouds that stand out from the background.

As promised, I started over and landed on this process. I'm much happier with the gradients of the IFN in this one.

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Can Nvidia just fuck off already?

I'll probably start over from (mostly) scratch on this tomorrow and process it all over again.

Bode's Galaxy is in the very center of the frame, it is a spiral galaxy with two distinct arms. These arms are blue with dots of magenta throughout. Above and to the right is the Cigar Galaxy. It's smaller than Bodes and is edge on to us, but, it does have red clouds jetting out from the center. There is IFN (integrated flux nebula) throughout the frame. It appears as wispy greyish clouds that stand out from the background.

Bodes and Cigar galaxy, and a few other nearby neighbors. I really wanted to pull out as much of the IFN with this shot as possible. It's definitely a start, but one that requires a lot more attention than I gave it tonight.

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