ngc 6888

 Posted: Sep 23rd, 2026
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Telescope/Lens: Sky-Watcher 130/650BKP
Camera: Canon 550da
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ3 OnStep
Guide Scope: svbony sv165 f4
Guide Camera: Asi 120mm mini
Software: Siril, Pix, Affinity
Accessories: ASIair plus, bahtinov mask
Exposure:
96 x 150" ISO/Gain: 800 - Sv220 7nm
Red, Bortle 7 zone:
 Praga, Czech Republic
 Sep 20th, 2026
4 h 0 m
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Resolution: 3977x3156 px
Scale: 60213 KB
Well, Affinity seems to have saved the situation quite well. Sure, there's still a boiling background, but this time I like the result much more. I think I'll leave it as is for now; in the future I might dig into it some more — after all, with 4 hours there's plenty of room to work with — but for now I'm satisfied with it as is. Actually, I tried to process it so the background wouldn't boil, and it even worked out, but the oxygen shell of the crescent shows poorly with that, so it is what it is.
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  Today, at 19:42
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Well, Affinity seems to have saved the situation quite well. Sure, there's still a boiling background, but this time I like the result much more. I think I'll l…
  21 Sep, 2026
  4 h 0 m
Well, I planned to collect more, but it is what it is. Overall, I kind of like the processing, but also something seems to be missing, idk, I think in the futur…
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If I ran it through nXt and bXt, it would be absolutely fire, judging by the fact that the material is good. Yesterday I reprocessed the crescent moon using these plugins, and I was even blown away by the difference — and oxygen shows up about twice as much.
Today, at 20:45 Reply
Megapups Replied to Nickolay
Well, unfortunately, I'm a poor student with Pix 1.8 cracked, although it seems BXT, NXT, etc. already work without PixInsight
Well, and I don't really want to bother my friends with paid plugins
And I also want to learn to squeeze the maximum out of stacks myself
But yeah, I agree, running the photos through them would have made them many times better
Today, at 20:51 Reply

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