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Jupiter 28-03-2016, 21:01 UT
Good views of the Great Red Spot tonight.
Celestron C9.25 Telescope on Skywatcher N eq6 pro mount
Televue x2 Barlow, Baader LRGB filters
ZWO ASI120mm camera
Best 30% of 2100 frames stacked each channel in Autostakkert
Wavelets adjusted in Registax 6
RGB channels combined using WinJUPOS
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 8th October 2019. Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera with Powermate 5x Barlow. Mounted on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at lunar speed.
2,000 frame video shot, the best 45% was stacked with Autostakkert! 3, processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic. I was imaging between 20:30 – 21:20 BST. The seeing was not great and the Moon was quite low in the sky, but I’m always amazed at what this little camera can achieve on such a small refractor!
Ce fût ma toute première photo planétaire faite seule
au foyer de mon 130/900.
Je découvrais fébrilement l'astrophoto et j'ai été fascinée par la rapidité d'obtenir un cliché sympa avec pas grand chose !
Cette première Jupiter, avec l'ombre du satellite Io est issue d'une vidéo de 21 secondes à 60 images par secondes capturées par le logiciel SharpCap. Elles ont ensuite été empilées sur le logiciel Autostakkert. Le traitement quant à lui a été fait avec Registax, notamment grâce aux ondelettes qui améliorent grandement la netteté de l'image.
Le materiel utilisé est très basique :
Une webcam spc900nc dans une Barlow bas de gamme x2, le tout au foyer de mon Skywatcher 130/900 sur eq2 non motorisé à l'époque.
ZWO ASI178MC
2.5x PowerMate
TeleVue NP101is
Losmandy G11
300 frames captured in Firecapture.
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
40 DSLR (Canon EOS 450D) shots 1/400s ISO100 prime focus. Baader Neodymium filter. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Autostakkert for alignment and stacking. Post-processing in PixInsight and Photoshop. Taken from Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
Interested to see what could be caught with just a 200mm lens, wished I'd taken more pictures though for stacking and a couple of darks, still, it shows what can be done with basic equipment :-) Star and Coma elongation caused by longish exposure of 6 seconds, camera not guided as mounted on a normal tripod
Jupiter on the morning of November 7, 2014. ASI200 on an 11" Celestron HD Edge. RGB filters. Stacked using AutoStakkert! and color channels blended in Photoshop.
Playing around with processing... May repost a better version later.
Full Solar Disk - False Color
Taken May 15, 2015 from Wild Horses Monument near Vantage, WA.
Telescope: Pressure-Tuned Lunt LS60THa
Mount: AP 900
Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
5 Panel Mosaic, each panel 3000 frames (best 20-50% frames taken, depending on panel analysis).
Analyzed and Stacked in AutoStakkert!2
Processed with Registax 6, AutoStitch, and Photoshop CS5.
Marte
Seeing aceptable pero jetstream medio/alto.
11 tomas de 280 segundos derrotadas y apiladas con WinJUPOS
Telescopio:Sky-Watcher Skymax Mak-Cass 180/2700 f15
Cámara: ZWO ASI290MC
Montura: iOptron CEM40
Filtros: Baader L CCD Filter
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax, WinJUPOS, Fitswork y Photoshop
Fecha: 2020-09-30 (30 de septiembre de 2020)
Hora: 04:36 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 11 videos de 280"' (51' en total)
Resolución: 304x400
Binning NO
Gain: 300 (50%)
FPS: 218 (media)
Exposure: 1.821ms
Frames: 61256 (media)
Frames apilados: 5%
Sensor temperature: 21.5°C (media)
An image of the Transit of Mercury 9th May 2016.
Image made from 1000 frame video
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, and Photoshop
Equipment:
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
Skywatcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera
Baader White Light Solar Filter
Orange filter (for purely aesthetic purpose)
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Timestamp: 28.5.2023 21:53:58 CEST
10" GSO Dobson Deluxe on Astrothingy EQ platform
Barlow lens 2.5x
IR pass filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 20s
exp 10.00ms
gain 50
frames 2000 (25% best stacked)
Profile=Moon
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Curves adjustments + Sharpen + crop
Taken with Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope and ZWO asci224mc Camera, sometime in the winter of 2017/18 (I'll find the date). Video stacked in Autostakkert 2 and processed in PS CC.
Rigel (β Orionis) appears as a bright blue white star found in the constellation of Orion. It shows some variability but is the currently the 7th brightest star in the night sky. It is believed to be 860 ± 80 light years away from Earth.
Rigel is believed to be a 3 star system, consisting of a massive blue supergiant Rigel A and two distant and much dimmer companions.
Much of Rigel's energy is emitted as ultraviolet radiation, but the visible component is around 40,000 times brighter than the Sun.
High mass stars such as Rigel exhaust their fuel at a far quicker rate than smaller stars, and so exist for only a few million years. Rigel is only around 8 million years old and has already exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core.
Over the next few million years Rigel will expand to an even greater size as it becomes a red supergiant and is likely to explode as a supernova. If this does occur, it will become the brightest object in the night sky apart from the moon.
Imaging telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO
Mount:SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto
Guiding telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Focal reducer:Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element
Software:Adobe PhotoShop CS5, FitsWork 4, Giotto 2.21, Autostakkert! 2 AutoStackkert 2.3.0.21
Filters:Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter, Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter, Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter
Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm
Date:Feb. 16, 2019
Time: 23:16
Frames: 1000
FPS: 25.00000
Focal length: 1000
Telescopio: TPO Ritchey Chretien 8"
Camara: ZWO ASI120MC-S
Montura: Quasar Eq5 Synscan
Frames: 1800
F: 8
Df: 1600 mm.
Fecha y hora de captura: 13/06/19 23:00 horas aproximadamente
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight 1.8
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Poncitlán Jalisco México
10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 42s
exp 6.00ms
gain 50
frames 5750
Profile=Jupiter
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen
Tránsito de Mercurio
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron CEM40
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-11-11
Hora: 12:39 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 30 segundos
Resolución: 1600 x 1200
Gain: 72
Exposure: 0,000032
Frames: 1543
Frames apilados: 18%
FPS: 51.05
The sun imaged in hydrogen-alpha at 04:15 UT on 2022 June 18, featuring a chromospheric disk with considerable activity. Features include minor flaring around active regions, several nice filaments and all shapes and sizes of prominences around the edge; south is up. The inset shows a part of the NW quadrant with the complex AR3030 to the west of the simpler AR3032 with several highly structured filaments adding to the spectacle.
Lunt 102mm solar telescope with ZWO ASI174MM video camera; frames selected and stacked in AutoStakkert, wavelet sharpened in RegiStax 6 and colour added in Photoshop CS5.
Best 33% of 3,000 frames in Autostakkert.
Wavelets - Registax 6
Photoshop CC 2015 for final touches.
Good transparency, Average Seeing, Pickering Scale = 5.
Celestron CPC800XLT
ASI290MC Camera
Shorty 2X Barlow
Jupiter.
Celestron NexStar 6SE,
ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter,
TeleVue 2.5x Powermate,
2.5 minute capture in SharpCap run through PIPP saving the best 1200 to run through AutoStakkert!2 and stacking the best 20%, sharpened in RegiStax and finished in Lightroom.
Sol Región Activa 12882
Buen seeing con un poco de brisa
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 1.8, T=1.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-10-07 (3 de octubre de 2021)
Hora: 13:00 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minuto
Resolución: 1184x858
Gain: 150 (29%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 8718
Frames apilados: 39%
FPS: 72
Sensor temperature= 38.0°C
Harvest Moon - 21st September 2021
The full moon of September 2021 named the Harvest Moon because it marks the time to harvest the crops before the frosts and cold weather arrives. The moon is so bright it can light the night sky enough to harvest crops.
Taken from my home in Gérgal, Almería, Spain.
Equipment:
Telephoto Lens: Tamron 150-600mm f/6.0 at 600mm
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MC Pro, cooled to -5C
Telescope Mount: iOptron Smart EQ Pro
Captured with Sharpcap Pro 4.0
Processed using AutoStakkert 3, Adobe Lightroom Classic and Topaz Sharpen AI.
Images: The best 200 of 1,000 frames.
#moon #fulllmoon #harvestmoon #astrophotography #sharpacp #autostakkert #tamron #zwo #topaz #ioptron #gérgal
Trying to further my moon photography here. I shot this with a Tokina 500mm F/8 mirror lens. The lens is not very sharp at F/8, so I created an aperture disk to stop it down to about F/22. Shot at 1/125 sec at ISO 800. I used a weighted tripod and mirror lock up to minimize vibration. I shot about 25 RAW files. Then I used a procedure I read about on ArsTechnica. I cropped and aligned the pics using PIPP. Then I sorted and stacked the best 16 frames using AutoStakkert to reduce noise. Then I sharpened the image using RegiStax with the Wavelet Sharpen tool. Finally, I used GIMP to adjust some curves and apply some chroma NR using the G'MIC plugin.
Object Details: After imaging the Sun one afternoon a few weeks ago I was able to catch the Lunar 'X' & Lunar 'V' (shown at the link attached here:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51212338570/ ).
Having a few extra minutes that evening I decided to shoot a couple of short video clips along the rest of the lunar terminator. Since I tend to image with multiple cameras simultaneously, as can be seen in the attached composite, I also took a few quick stills using a 'wider-field' scope simply as a reference as to overall location.
Image Details: Taken by Jay Edwards at the HomCav Observatory on the evening of May 18th, 2021; the top shows a three panel mosaic of the terminator along a 6 day old waxing crescent moon and at bottom is a 'full disk' reference image. The mosaic was shot using a vintage 1970, 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector and a ZWO ASI290MC with a lum filter - connected at prime focus while the reference image was taken using an ED80T CF (i.e. an 80MM, f/6 carbon-fiber, triplet apochromatic refractor) connected to a 0.8x Televue focal reducer / field flattener and an unmodded Canon 700D DSLR. The 80mm apo. was piggybacked on the 8-inch, along with an 80MM f/5 Celestron 'short-tube' doublet (for guiding when imaging DSOs) as well as a few other items (e.g. a CCD & wide-field camera lens, etc.) and these optics were tracked using a Losmandy G-11 mount running a Gemini 2 control system.
I have labeled the locations of the Lunar 'X' & 'V' as well as one of my favorite 'geologic' lunar features that, although not perfectly lit, I thought appears somewhat decently in this phase of illumination, 'Vallis Alpes' (Latin for The 'Alpine Valley'). Unlike the 'X' & 'V' which result from pareidolia, the Alpine Valley is a 166 km (103 mi.) long, 10km (6 mi.) wide graben (i.e. a physically depressed section of the moon's crust between parallel faults).
The video clips with the ASI290MC on the 8-inch were controlled by SharpCap Pro, while the individual frames taken with the DSLR on the 80MM apo. were sequenced with AstroPhotographyTool (APT). Processed using a combination of AutoStakkert, Registax & PaintShopPro, as presented here the luminance / lightness channels have been extracted, the entire composite has been reduced to 2 x that of HD resolution (approx. 1/2's the original size).
A shot using the same 8-inch Criterion & ASI290MC camera showing additional lighting on the Alpine Valley region during a first quarter moon back in 2019 can be found at the link attached here:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/48070020973/in/al...
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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 60s
exp 15.00ms
gain 50
frames 4001
Profile=Saturn
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + layer masks + crop
Saturn on May 5th, 2018 from Broemmelsiek Park in Wentzville, MO.
Equipment:
Scope: Celestron C14 (3910mm focal length)
Upgraded with Moonlite CF focuser with motor
Imager: ZWO ASI174mm and ZWO filter wheel
Filters: ZWO RGB
Mount: Celestron CGE Pro
Acquisition using FireCapture
Integration using AutoStakkert!3.0
Processing with PixInsight 1.8
Sunspots in white light
Skywatcher Evostar 120
Lunt Herschell wedge
ZWO ASI120mm camera
Processed using Autostakkert,Registax6 and colour added in PS
250mm f4.8 Newtonian
UV/IR block
ZWO ASI290MC
120fps 90s .SER videos
Captured in FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert 3, Registax, Photoshop
654 frames using my S4 Zoom, converted from MP4 to AVI via PIPP and stacked in AutoStakkert 2. Used my Nexstar 127SLT and a 25mm ep.
Celestron C8 SCT with 2X barlow
ZWO ASI224MC camera
SharpCap, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax
1000-frame series completed 1:17 am EDT on 1 Oct 2020
Northern Nassau County NY
A mosaic of our satellite on the morning of 2022-09-18 around 4 a.m. 122 tiles acquired with a usually fast camera, attached to a 500mm f/8 scope and equipped here with a red filter.
As said, the camera I used is usually fast, just not this time. For some reason, most likely the icy temperature, the camera's rate was limited to USB 2. I had to adapt the acquisition at last moment. The compromise consisted in pushing the exposure time to 20 milliseconds, working at 8-bit dynamics and recording only 400 frames per video.
Regarding the processing, I converted each video into a tile by selecting the best 80 frames. Each tile was deconvolved with the Wiener algorithm, the PSF being semi-empirical. After assembling the mosaic, some correction and tuning were required: tonecurve adjustment, stitch fixing, halo removal along the limb and assignment of a slight yellowish hue to the originally grayscale image.
If you have a look at full size, you'll probably notice some defects, but this is all I could come to without excessive work :)
A word about hardware and software: ASI290 MM camera, Astrosib 500mm telescope, stacking with AutoStakkert! 3, PSF evaluation, noise estimation and deconvolution with Python (NumPy & SciPy), assembling with Hugin, and final processing with Photoshop.
Finally, a few numbers: the Moon covers 12388 pixels pole to pole, thus a projected resolution of 280m per pixel.
Blood Red Moon - 100% full, at perigee - 27-Sep-2015 - Near full eclipse. Nikon 300mm f/4 + 1.4x teleconverter on camera tripod - Nikon 1 J5 camera - effective focal length 420mm @ f/5.6 - 8 frames (1/3sec @ ISO400) Stacked and aligned in AutoStakkert 2, wavelet sharpened in RegiStax 6 - post-processed with Lightroom 6
Dust storm still hindering surface details. Seeing was average which also does not help much either, but it was the first window of opportunity in many days of waiting.
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD
ASI290MC camera
X-Cel LX 2.0 Barlow
ZWO ADC
Seeing - 3/5
Best 30% of 15,000 frames with Autostakkert 3.0.14
Wrapping up my 2021 planetary images! Here is Jupiter, the 5th planet, with three of its four Galilean moons. From left to right: Io, Ganymede, and Europa. Jupiter has 80 known moons and a faint ring system. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along the boundaries.
1,000 x 1/30 second ISO1600 (best of 5,475)
Phase angle: 1.71°
Apparent magnitude: -2.86
Apparent diameter: 49"
Distance from Earth: 4.023 AU
Altitude above horizon: 50°
Atmospheric seeing: 5/5
Captured at 06:32 UTC on 08/12/21
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
Captured with Magic Lantern RAW Video (10 bit, 30 FPS, 640 x 426)
Processed with MLV App, PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET
Foto por: Edgar Orozco
Luna - 2020-01-05 22:40
Nikon D5300 + Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 55-300 mm.
Apilado 10 imágenes - 1/500, 1/400, 1/320 - f/7.1, 5.6, 6.3 - 300 mm, VR on, ISO 125,
PIPP, Autostakkert, IrfanView, PS
Taken at 22:56 BST with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope on an EQ6 mount with a Canon 1100D at prime focus.
ISO-800 1/1250 sec exp
250 shots taken, shot in RAW. Converted into TIFFs using Lightroom then the best 60% stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Stacked image then processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic. Cropped from original full sized image
The sun, today, with few sunspot
Telescope: 130 apo triplet f/7 with Mylar filter
Camera: Canon EOS M
Stack of 30 shots with Autostakkert
Takahashi FS60
ZWO ASI120MM
Prisma de Herschel Hercules + ND#3 + Baader Solar Continuum
Celestron CGEM
Frames: 3000
Df: 374mm
F: 6.2
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax6 + Fitsworks + Ps6
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Poncitlán Jalisco México
Moderate to good seeing - Mare Cimmerium, Syrtis Minor, and Polar Hood visible. Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 5X, ZWO ASI 662MC, recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom. I had about an hour of clear sky in between clouds.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Coronado PST
Imaging Cameras
Point Grey Grasshopper3 GS3-U3-23S6M-C
Mounts
Celestron Omni CG-4
Accessories
OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller
Software
Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!
Acquisition details
Date: Oct. 9, 2022
Frames: 250
FPS: 25
Focal length: 800
Resolution: 3024x3867
File size: 19.2 MB
Data source: Backyard
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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Barlow lens 2.5x
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 20s
exp 12.00ms
gain 50
frames 1667
Profile=Jupiter
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + noise reduction
Lens:
Tokina RMC 400mm f5.6
Think this was around 40 photos stacked.
Software used:
PIPP
AutoStakkert 3.0
Photoshop
Camera Raw
Lightroom
Topaz Sharpen AI (Trial)
I went pretty crazy with this as you can see. The shape and texture of the surface is way off, but this is not meant to be an honest representation. Learned that you need A LOT more photos when stacking than I expected. =)
Waxing crescent Moon. Taken with Nikon D5100 mounted to a Celestron Nexstar 6SE telescope, prime focus. Stacked with AutoStakkert using 25 photos. (My first closeup moon photo!). 1/320 sec exposure at 1600 ISO.
Genova, Italy (09 Oct 2020 - 00:51:34 GMT+2)
Orange vintage C8 (203 F10 SC Telescope) on EQ5 Mount + QHY5L-II Color Camera @ F25 (Barlow APO 2.5x).
Best 10680 frames of 35602 (30%)
Recording: SharpCap 3.2 (320x240 @ 130fps)
Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets: Registax 6.1
Final: GIMP 2.10.8
Waxing Crescent Moon captured at 20:25BST (19:25GMT) 35% illuminated 6 days since New Moon - 28.05.2020
Altair Astro 72EDR (f/6) telescope (432mm focal length)
Camera: Altair Astro IMX178C Hypercam (CMOS)
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-GTI
Data: 3000 frames captured with SharpCap 3.2Pro (3.
3ms / Gain = 220)
Processing: Best 15% of data stacked with AutoStakkert 3, white balance adjusted with Registax6.
Post processing with Astra Image Deconvolution plugin and final curve tweaks with Photoshop 2020
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: Baader Green CCD Filter
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-08-15 (15 de agosto de 2019)
Hora: 01:27 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Fase lunar: 99.8% 13.93 días Creciente
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 3096 x 2080
Gain: 95 (19%)
FPS: 15,10
Exposure: 1.04 ms
Frames: 1817
Sensor temperature=35.3°C
Frames apilados: 25%
It was -5°c out in the Peak District's best dark sky spot when I took this at 3am on 6th December. Made focussing this big lens all the more harder when you're trying to suppress shivering.
Taken with Olympus E-P5 and Tamron 500mm f/8 catadioptric lens. Merge of best 50% of 140 shots all taken at 1/320 and ISO640. Stacked in AutoStakkert 2, post-processed in Photoshop. I kept sharpening modest for a more natural, grain free look.