Siril has been a game changer for me and has helped me get much more out of my data than I ever thought possible. Keep the Siril videos coming!
9 months ago | 0
It's awesome! I remove the stars using starnet, stretch the starless image in Siril, polish it in Photoshop as a TIF, then bring it back into Siril for the Star recomposition. I like the way the stars are handled way better than just doing a screen overlay in Photoshop. (You do have to resave the TIF file as a .fit before you can run the star recomposition)
9 months ago | 1
Absolute game changer! I used to pre-stretch my star mask then layer it in gimp with a screen composite, but if you accidentally over stretch, you’re stuck with it 😂
9 months ago | 0
Jup, its mandatory for all of my Pictures as soon as the integration came out. Huge Gamechanger
9 months ago | 0
I exclusively use it and love it. It's so easy to compose SHO nebulae with RGB stars
9 months ago | 0
Siril is generally my go to, at the moment. Still relatively young in the hobby, but using Starnet on there has been super easy.
9 months ago | 0
I did use this technique for a year! Then someone suggested to test histogram transformation instead for the stars image only. The différence is huge, GHS on stars was actually hurting them, creating some kind of non natural halo around it. Give it a try and compare the results ;)
9 months ago | 0
I stopped using it because I couldn't find a way to overcome a problem I was having. On most (but not all) compositions siril was reversing the stars frame. So that the stars were back to front or a mirror image of where they should be in relation to the nebula layer. So if the original correct image had a bright star on the bottom left, as soon as I combined it in siril recom tool, the star would be on the top right with the nebula still the right way! I tried the forums and every setting I could think of but couldn't find what was going wrong. To summarise; the stars only image is correctly shown right up until the point that I import it into the recombination tool, then it gets reversed! I gave up and now use pixinsight.
9 months ago | 0
Nebula Photos
Have you used Siril's Star Recomposition process? I continue to be SO impressed by it. I'm able to stretch the nebula and the stars separately and with a huge amount of granularity. Yes, there are other ways to do this, but not this seamlessly and easily with a live image preview. I'll be showing off its power again in my next video - coming soon! To prepare for that video, download Siril and Starnet (CLI version)! siril.org/ and starnetastro.com/ and get starnet integrated into Siril. Watch my video here for instructions: https://youtu.be/gyOa8eNIVlk (check the timestamps to skip ahead to your operating system - for Siril you need to install the CLI version of Starnet)
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