Utah Astrophotography
Panorama Normal 6144
Sky portion of a panorama done in Zion 3 years ago, testing out the new BlurX in PixInsight and it's capabilities with a wide angle pano that's stretched and color adjusted with curves. I chose this pano because it's one of the worst case stitches I've ever had, I never actually finished the pano because it was so bad. This was shot with a self modified Nikon Z6 and Tamron 35mm f1.4 (at f2). The modification caused some severe sensor tilt that I couldn't ever get dialed in properly, as a result there are significant star problems and stitching problems throughout the image. Even worse was the rapidly moving bands of bright green airglow which enhanced the star problems and color problems. I pretty much binned the pano because it was so hard to edit.
RC-Astro released a new version of his BlurX plugin for PixInsight last month and Bry thought to try it on one of her shots, then showed me. I was very impressed, so I wanted to give it a shot on the horrible picture to see what I could get out of it. I opened the stitched sky and do some curves adjustment to try and tame some of the colors (no saturation/vibrance and no sharpening/noise reduction though). Then I opened the tiff file in PixInsight and ran BlurX on it at 0.4/0.4 for stars/non-stellar sharpening, which is a low to moderate amount. Finally I resampled the image to 6144px on the long edge (the max res Flickr can display).
Panorama Normal 6144
Sky portion of a panorama done in Zion 3 years ago, testing out the new BlurX in PixInsight and it's capabilities with a wide angle pano that's stretched and color adjusted with curves. I chose this pano because it's one of the worst case stitches I've ever had, I never actually finished the pano because it was so bad. This was shot with a self modified Nikon Z6 and Tamron 35mm f1.4 (at f2). The modification caused some severe sensor tilt that I couldn't ever get dialed in properly, as a result there are significant star problems and stitching problems throughout the image. Even worse was the rapidly moving bands of bright green airglow which enhanced the star problems and color problems. I pretty much binned the pano because it was so hard to edit.
RC-Astro released a new version of his BlurX plugin for PixInsight last month and Bry thought to try it on one of her shots, then showed me. I was very impressed, so I wanted to give it a shot on the horrible picture to see what I could get out of it. I opened the stitched sky and do some curves adjustment to try and tame some of the colors (no saturation/vibrance and no sharpening/noise reduction though). Then I opened the tiff file in PixInsight and ran BlurX on it at 0.4/0.4 for stars/non-stellar sharpening, which is a low to moderate amount. Finally I resampled the image to 6144px on the long edge (the max res Flickr can display).