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ngc 6888NGC 6888NGC 6874
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Photo description / processing

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 future I'll keep trying to bring it to perfection, but for now I'm satisfied with the result.

I was happy with the processing until I looked at the result on my phone 

This is actually a big problem — on the computer it looks good, but when I look at it on my phone, well, it doesn't look as good anymore, and most likely it's on the phone that you can actually see how it really looks. I don't know what to do about this, I think I tried digging into my laptop settings but it didn't really work out 

Technical information

Telescope/Lens
Sky-Watcher 130/650BKP
Camera
Canon 550da
Mount
Sky-Watcher EQ3 OnStep
Guide Scope
svbony sv165 f4
Guide Camera
Asi 120mm mini
Accessories
ASIair plusbahtinov mask
Software
Siril, Pix
Location
Прага, Чехия

Light pollution

Red, Bortle 7 zone

Date taken

Exposure

  • 96 × 150″ · ISO/Gain: 800 · Sv220 7nm

Total exposure: 4 h 0 m

Photo versions

ngc 6888
Updated
ngc 6888

Sep 23rd, 2026

4 h 0 m

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.

ngc 6888
Current photo
ngc 6888

Sep 21st, 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 future I'll keep trying to bring it to perfection, but for now I'm satisfied with the result. I was happy with the processing until I looked at the result on my phone This is actually a big problem — on the computer it looks good, but when I look at it on my phone, well, it doesn't look as good anymore, and most likely it's on the phone that you can actually see how it really looks. I don't know what to do about this, I think I tried digging into my laptop settings but it didn't really work out

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Nickolay
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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.
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megapupsReply to Nickolay
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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
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NickolayReply to megapups
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Yes, now you can buy it separately, the price is $189. We split it three ways, so it comes out to $65 each, not that much. The processing turns from suffering into pleasure, and it saves time too. The plugins work through Siril. I myself only just started using it; before that I was also using a cracked Pix.
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NickolayReply to megapups
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Can you provide a link to the FITS file? I'd like to run it through and see what comes out myself. We could even combine your material and mine. I recently tried it in PixInsight—it's not that hard.)
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megapupsReply to Nickolay
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/16VGi0ERY7g059lkLGtiylvi4H0NNMkXI/view?usp=sharing well here's the link, just to warn you the coma there is quite large despite good collimation so I'm not sure if it'll be possible to combine it properly
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megapupsReply to Nickolay
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Actually, most likely such terrible coma on the left side of the frame is because I shot over two nights and on the first night the secondary mirror was slightly shifted to the side, which made the left part of the stack very mushy, especially the stars

Oh and yes, different coma due to the mod
Well, more specifically, a different appearance of coma
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NickolayReply to megapups
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dRyGYZ9F4KnNogwef3ZxMFiq1Co4bBkj/view?usp=sharing

There's not enough oxygen, I did what I could, I'm not much of a processor myself) and your processing is quite decent, I didn't achieve any impressive difference.
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megapupsReply to Nickolay
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Well, the difference in dust processing isn't that big, but... the detail — I honestly couldn't even believe it was my stack, yeah it looks a bit artificially smooth, but still all the details are really there in my version too, just more soapy, and something in my soul started wondering whether BXT and NXT are actually worth it after all.
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