axiomv2 starless

 Trial and -lots of- error.

Small bright galaxies. So that it doesn't identify m32, the innermost of the elliptical satellite galaxies. IOW, to avoid this:

1. crop pedestal abe bg-neutral w-balance as normal. No sharpen.

2. cc AI4 denoise default

3. Sat-str 0.01

4. axiomv2 - NO temp stretch. 384 96

5. Stat-str 0.10

6. Mask and combine to taste

ROCm no go on iGPU SASpro

Despite a long wait trying ROCm 7.3, 7.1 and 7.0 wheels, gfx90c does not work:

torch CPU only:

toward mesa

 

seti practise

 

Determination. Let's see if there's any improvement

camera: atr533c
telescope: sv550 80mm

m13 in hercules

m44 in cancer

m106 in canes venatici

markarian's chain in virgo

ngc3077 m81 m82 in ursa major (*)
process: startools

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process: SASp

phdlogview

 Suppress error popup on start, add this line in file ~/.bashrc :

export WXSUPPRESS_SIZER_FLAGS_CHECK=1

m44 m106

 An all nighter. Can't remember the last time it was cloud/wind/storm free all night. Nothing went well. Of particular note, one the usbs on the mount -the little blue thing in the socket- decided to finally work itself loose, rendering the camera inoperable. How long does it take to debug something like that? In the dark and with with the telescope 15m away...

Can never get this right, but here goes...

open cluster m44 pesebre in cancer
atr533 on sv80    27x4min @ hcg100

galaxy m106 and friends in canes venatici
atr533 on sv80    104x4min @ hcg100
seti: no syqon

st

m36

The wind eventually allowed for a 2 hour session without fear of storm damage.

open cluster m36 in auriga
atr533 on sv80    21x4min @ hcg100

A slightly bigger hammer...