I just got myself a MacBook and was really disappointed to know that DSS isn't available. You're a lifesaver, man! So grateful for your tutorials. Can't thank you enough.
Man, I sat here for two solid hours tonight trying to figure out how on earth you export as a tiff on mac version. In another tutorial a guy went to file/save as top left. This was not on the mac. I'm new enough to deep sky stacking but wow, this simple thing really had me stumped. Thanks to you I see how it's done, I had clicked that down arrow but didn't think thet drop down at the bottom was where you select. Thanks!
Love your videos, they've really helped me get started with stacking and processing, especially since you show how to do stuff in things like GIMP instead of just PS. The only annoying part is having to wait for clear skies to try more things out haha!
Nico, it is great to see another video from you. I really appreciate the level of detail you explain each step, it really helps us as a newcomers to astrophotography. I have not had clear skies here in Mexico for a while so I keep playing with the processing tips from you. One sad thing is that just a couple of months ago, I paid the FY creative cloud stuff and I see that gimp is a great tool and could have saved some money...Anyway, thanks a lot for all the effort and please keep on sharing your knowledge!
Awesome! This is the first time I have seen Siril, and thanks for covering GiMP. I didn't want to purchase Photoshop or other tools because I just got PixInsight. Having a suite of tools which I under my belt will only help me to improve my images. Keep up the great videos :D
I have enjoyed all the videos with regards to the lagoon nebula stacking and processing and found the Siril program more difficult to follow. Have you used Astro Pixel Processor as it appears to be one of the few programs not mentioned. For a beginner which programs (fee and free) would you recommend?
Wow!!! Question... I also use GIMP 2.10 however, my tool selection on left side is much smaller and this version just seems to have more options available around the general screen area... does your computer have anything to do with these tools bars? Running in and older computer using windows 7. This may have been your best video yet. So much detail and great color.
Thanks for another fine tutorial Nico - really interested to see how Siril compares to DSS - certainly looks easier to use with the scripts, but appreciate there is still a lot of options you've yet to explore. Assume you rate it sufficiently to still consider it for a future video tutorial / stacker of choice ?
Hi Ian, I will probably keep producing video series in this branching approach to show people different options. If I had more time, I would add even more (AstroPixelProcessor, StarTools, etc.). I think Siril is just as easy to use as DSS, faster than most of the competition, and has additional features that make it the better option. For example, PhotometricColorCalibration works well for getting to an accurate starting color balance. With the new UI, I predict it will explode in popularity soon. For my personal projects (not UA-cam), I mostly use PixInsight and Photoshop partly because I have put in many hours with those programs so can work efficiently in them. Clear skies, Nico
Thank you for the great tutorial. Two questions. Was this from the modified 60d? Also, was there a reason for not using SiriL's auto histogram function? It does a pretty fast job of auto stretching as a starting point in PS or GIMP.
Yes, this was from the modified 60D. No reason to not stretch in SiriL; I usually find auto-stretches a bit too aggressive with a strong possibility of clipping star color.
Mr. Nico, you do know why there's more green, it is not for some reason, it is for the reason of dslr camera sensor having twice as much green photosites :) Maybe test if all the green problems go away when you do "Remove green noise" after the color correction step in siril, just below there in the menu. (and there by having other channels in check too and not having to mess around with them)
@@NebulaPhotos yeah me too, even more. Learned that from another guide, really took out a lot of annoying little balance seeking adjustments from my own few tests
What are your thoughts on Starry Sky Stacker (SSS)? I notice a lot of us are mac users and many people seem to use Starry Landscape Stacker, but your videos have largely used DSS instead, despite being a mac user. This month I've been using both SSS and DSS, and SSS seems to be wayyyyyy worse than DSS after stacking ~200 images of Andromeda. SSS almost seems to stack a worse image than any of my individual images, but I feel like I've been following the instructions..
@@NebulaPhotos Now that you've made it's usage accessible with a good educational video I'll give it a shot! It would be nice to cut out the steps of transferring to/from my wife's PC to use DSS. Your other comments below to other replies are super useful as well. Thanks Nico.
Hi Fred, Not sure, but feel free to send my the file, and the camera/lens you used and I can take a look: nicocarver at gmail dot com. You can also try the normal color calibration, where it doesn't need to plate solve. Just click on the red channel, and draw a small box over a dark nebula for the "black reference" and then draw a box over a blown out star core and use that as the "white reference". It will then color balance the image using those two previews as the black point and white point. Clear skies, Nico
Hi there, just wanted to give my two cents on this. I had some issues with the plate solving also, although I feel this version improved on this. The work around for me was to play with different shapes and sizes on the crop and try again the photometric calibration until it worked. One additional comment is that if you have problems finding the pixel size for your camera you can click the get Metadata from Image to fill those automatically. Greetings from Mexico City!
Can you please do a video on processing using SIRIL for wide field milkyway photo from one of your barn door tracker. I'd really appreciate it. I'm having difficulty with SIRIL I do not use calibration frames as I just do nightscapes.
Thank you for this wonderful detailed tutorial. I downloaded the lagoon-dss.tiff and was trying to follow your instructions and when i start stretching as described at 18.23 in the video. I see it shows green overlay on the image. The history after your first stretch the blue color hitting the ceiling. When i do it, it shows Red separated from the rest of it, I followed it to the dot. Exact numbers. Little help!!
Ah, that was out of DSS without the photometric color calibration from Siril. I will put up a new file called Siril-result.tiff for you to use. Or if you are interested to see how to get that file working check out part 2a 😊 sorry for the confusion
@@NebulaPhotos Thanks for the quick response. I am excited and will take pictures tonight and following your instruction from part 2a - DSS and GIMP. Thanks again for the details you have been sharing through these videos.
So I want to align 30 frames from the perseids with Siril. I only have lights. I made all the subfolders biases/darks/flats/lights into a perseids folder. Then I go to registration but it says I have to load a sequence first. I am stuck here.
Instead of using the script, just convert the lights to FITS (convert tab) to make a sequence, then use the register tab to register the converted files. See here (but skip the stuff about calibration): siril.org/tutorials/tuto-manual/
@@NebulaPhotos It works but I need to look into that tutorial because I don't really know what I'm doing. In the meantime I downloaded a script onlylights_nodarks_noflats_nobiases and that also works and it gives me a final image which I can start processing.
Very good tutorial. Siril has come a long way from when I last looked at it. Deserves a new look. From the demo it looks to be a good alternative to DSS. Does it also replace Registax? I’ve been searching for a replacement for it since it’s become very unstable in Windows 10.
Thanks Nico. I’ve tried Autostakkert, and it tends to work, but it isn’t as complete as Registax. I wish they would make the source for Registax so someone could bring it up to date. It’s wavelet functions were useful. It was last updated in 2011.
In your final analysis of the image, you say it's too red in the lower left and too green in the centre but to my eyes, it looks fantastic and I wouldn't know how those 2 areas should appear. To what would I reference to know the 'correct' appearance of any area of the sky? Is it just a matter of more experience (on your part) knowing how these areas appear in other photos?
It's a tricky thing, and yes you can train your eye to see these issues by looking at lots of astrophotography and putting your work out there for critique (local astronomy clubs, astrobin, etc.). When I was noticing the green and magenta color casts at the end, I was noticing them in the dark parts of the image. Typically your sky background or dark dust lanes should be a fairly neutral dark gray/black and not take on any one color too strongly. It's a bit hard to see them in this image since the milky way is nearly filling the frame.
You can try the normal color calibration, where it doesn't need to plate solve. Just click on the red channel, and draw a small box over a dark nebula for the "black reference" and then draw a box over a blown out star core and use that as the "white reference". It will then color balance the image using those two previews as the black point and white point. Clear skies, Nico
Great tutorial as always Nico. And it’s a great idea to do this in different combinations of stacking and processing software! Question - Does the color calibration only requires reference info of stars and nebulae. I searched for Jupiter/saturn and it returns nothing. Does this mean I cannot stack photos of planets in Siril?
Hi Nikhil, yes, Siril is only for deep sky processing as far as I know. For planetary, most people use free programs like PIPP, Autostakkert, and Registax. Cheers, Nico
I have a question about the focal distance when doing the Photometric Color Calibration. My camera is an APS-C (Nikon). Should this be the 50mm, which was the lens I used, or the 50 x 1.5, which is the crop factor? I've looked at the docs, but they are not up to date for the beta version. Anyone know?
Likely nothing wrong. Just need to color balance your photo (either with one of the color calibration processes in Siril or more manually with curves in Gimp)
Nebula Photos thank you watching the video again. Will play around. One question I have: I own a 14mm Samyang w/ petal shaped hood and I’m having trouble getting my flats. Is it possible to run the script with no flats or will I run into any problems?
@@MoogeyTV You can read through the script file itself (it's a mere text file) to see what operations it's doing on the images. There are also scripts for One-Shot Color images with no calibration frames.
"For some reason the green channel came out quite a bit brighter than the red and the blue". I would guess that the reason is the Bayer filter on the sensor.
So I’ve watched most of your videos I have a Mac so deep sky stacker won’t work so I was just wondering if u use Astro pixel processing at all and if so could u make a video of how to stack in that program thanks
This video was made completely on Mac with Siril+Gimp. Siril does everything DeepSkyStacker does and more. I have Astro Pixel Processor, but would need to learn it more before I could make video.
So Ps crashes, but GIMP doesn't? In Photoshop there is a filter called dust and scratches that can be used for star removal. Gimp doesn't have a filter like that by default, but if you are on windows or Linux you can add the GMIC plug in and use the 'remove hot pixels' to do the same thing: gmic.eu/gimp.shtml These methods won't work as well as starnet++, but can still be worth doing.
@@NebulaPhotos GIMP goes like a Ferrari here! Is maybe my computer too obsolete? For example, about Lightroom my Creative Cloud account said "incompatible". I'll try with the link. Just figure out how to plug in the plug in. Thank you, sir.
Oh friend. Tried all of this. But after processing on Siril, got nothing. On the Photomettric Color Calibration, Siril claims not to find the Messier. Of course, my sky was not as clean as yours, bortle8, my camera is not as good as yours (Nikon D3100), but I can see a lot of stars on the image processed. I can see Coronae Australis. I don't know if the processing messed up something, but the fact is that it cannot find it. I could not find out how to manually set some stars on the image for it to process... I'll keep trying, and also put Siril to process some scorpio images with antares at the center... lets see ... anyway thanks a lot.
You can use the normal color calibration. It doesn't need to find stars. You just click on blue channel, draw a box over background sky, set as black reference, then draw a box over some bright stars and set as white reference. Should work when the photometric process fails.
With Siril, they no longer include the 'lights only' script in the pre-packaged version of the program, but you can still download the script from the 'other scripts' section here, called 'preprocessing without DBF': free-astro.org/index.php?title=Siril:scripts#Siril_scripts
@@NebulaPhotos Have you tried later 32 bits? I'm having some strange issue when I save Siril output as 32 tif and Im trying to open it in GIMP or even in Windows Gallery app. The image is totally distorted.
@@toolan I haven't. Still have to try that. If you have difficulties, I'd just stretch in Siril and then use 16bit. Most of the extra precision is lost once you stretch.
It doesn't have any specific tools for adding in landscape like Sequator, but you could stack the sky portion in Siril and then add the landscape in GIMP or Photoshop.
Hi Nico! I have been using siril now for all my images, I like for the most part but I noticed when you brought it in to gimp you did not do the histogram stench but left it as linear? I always do the hist. stretch....is that wrong? Cheers!
Hi Edwin, Not wrong at all! You can certainly do the histogram stretch in Siril or do it with Levels in gimp. Either way should produce similar results in the end. Cheers, Nico
@@celestinp1767 If you are on Windows, go for the Graphical User Interface version to make it easier. Otherwise, the command line version for whatever operating system you are using.
I'm sure the Siril devs appreciate you testing and leaving a bug report. :) I didn't run into anything while testing on Mac, but for what I did, it wasn't too different from the previous version.
@@NebulaPhotos Reinstalled the beta, and now id did finish, only to fail, in 1 hour 10 minutes or so, where the old one succeeded in 38 minutes. Star matching failed miserably in the beta: 19 out of 71 frames skipped, where in the old one only 2 were skipped. So, not happy with the new version yet.
I just got myself a MacBook and was really disappointed to know that DSS isn't available. You're a lifesaver, man! So grateful for your tutorials. Can't thank you enough.
Man, I sat here for two solid hours tonight trying to figure out how on earth you export as a tiff on mac version. In another tutorial a guy went to file/save as top left. This was not on the mac. I'm new enough to deep sky stacking but wow, this simple thing really had me stumped. Thanks to you I see how it's done, I had clicked that down arrow but didn't think thet drop down at the bottom was where you select. Thanks!
Glad I could help! The Siril UI is improved in the new version, but still has some quirks
One of the best tutorials. Got me into using SIRIL because of this video.
Love your videos, they've really helped me get started with stacking and processing, especially since you show how to do stuff in things like GIMP instead of just PS. The only annoying part is having to wait for clear skies to try more things out haha!
Ha, I hear ya. ☁️😭
This video helped me get a picture of the Orion Nebula with my crappy Canon SX40HS Bridge Camera from 2011!!!
Nico, it is great to see another video from you. I really appreciate the level of detail you explain each step, it really helps us as a newcomers to astrophotography. I have not had clear skies here in Mexico for a while so I keep playing with the processing tips from you. One sad thing is that just a couple of months ago, I paid the FY creative cloud stuff and I see that gimp is a great tool and could have saved some money...Anyway, thanks a lot for all the effort and please keep on sharing your knowledge!
I'm really happy that siril made a version that only uses one window, the old one made my page really crowded.
Awesome! This is the first time I have seen Siril, and thanks for covering GiMP. I didn't want to purchase Photoshop or other tools because I just got PixInsight. Having a suite of tools which I under my belt will only help me to improve my images. Keep up the great videos :D
Thank you for showing mac compatibile software because I've been struggling to find good software for Mac for a while
I'll be coming back to this one a few times, I think. Siril is new for me, as is StarNet++. Great job, Niko.
this was an absolute game changer for me! Thanks a lot and keep up the great work, your videos are really inspiring🌌❤
Glad they are helpful Mahdi! Clear skies, Nico
save to my favorite playlist .
thanks for tutorial
i will try it soon
Great tutorial. Thank you.
I have enjoyed all the videos with regards to the lagoon nebula stacking and processing and found the Siril program more difficult to follow. Have you used Astro Pixel Processor as it appears to be one of the few programs not mentioned. For a beginner which programs (fee and free) would you recommend?
NO WAY! a mac user too!!!, dude awesome video!, your channel helps a lot me as mac user, kudos!
Thank you, i'm a beginner and with your sample, I can training myself.
Wow!!! Question... I also use GIMP 2.10 however, my tool selection on left side is much smaller and this version just seems to have more options available around the general screen area... does your computer have anything to do with these tools bars? Running in and older computer using windows 7.
This may have been your best video yet. So much detail and great color.
Not sure what's going on regarding GIMP. I just installed it on my Mac and didn't change anything
Thanks for another fine tutorial Nico - really interested to see how Siril compares to DSS - certainly looks easier to use with the scripts, but appreciate there is still a lot of options you've yet to explore. Assume you rate it sufficiently to still consider it for a future video tutorial / stacker of choice ?
Hi Ian,
I will probably keep producing video series in this branching approach to show people different options. If I had more time, I would add even more (AstroPixelProcessor, StarTools, etc.). I think Siril is just as easy to use as DSS, faster than most of the competition, and has additional features that make it the better option. For example, PhotometricColorCalibration works well for getting to an accurate starting color balance. With the new UI, I predict it will explode in popularity soon. For my personal projects (not UA-cam), I mostly use PixInsight and Photoshop partly because I have put in many hours with those programs so can work efficiently in them.
Clear skies, Nico
Thank you for the great tutorial. Two questions. Was this from the modified 60d? Also, was there a reason for not using SiriL's auto histogram function? It does a pretty fast job of auto stretching as a starting point in PS or GIMP.
Yes, this was from the modified 60D. No reason to not stretch in SiriL; I usually find auto-stretches a bit too aggressive with a strong possibility of clipping star color.
Awesome!!! Thank you!!!
Any time! Clear skies, Nico
Thanks, do you know if Siril supports Fuji RAF Files?
Awesome video! Thank you so much. My question is why you are changing the image to 16 bit since it will lose some data?
GIMP doesn't do 32 bit images to my knowledge.
Great movie as always! Are you planning to record Andromeda this way (without ST)?
Yes, video is in progress
Love your vids so much! :)
Thanks Jordan! Clear skies, Nico
Mr. Nico, you do know why there's more green, it is not for some reason, it is for the reason of dslr camera sensor having twice as much green photosites :) Maybe test if all the green problems go away when you do "Remove green noise" after the color correction step in siril, just below there in the menu.
(and there by having other channels in check too and not having to mess around with them)
Thanks for the tip; still new to Siril.
@@NebulaPhotos yeah me too, even more. Learned that from another guide, really took out a lot of annoying little balance seeking adjustments from my own few tests
To find out pixel size you don't need to google it, the size can be defined automatically on click in menu button below pixel size subwindow
Thanks for the tip; still new to Siril.
@@NebulaPhotos have fun)
What are your thoughts on Starry Sky Stacker (SSS)? I notice a lot of us are mac users and many people seem to use Starry Landscape Stacker, but your videos have largely used DSS instead, despite being a mac user.
This month I've been using both SSS and DSS, and SSS seems to be wayyyyyy worse than DSS after stacking ~200 images of Andromeda. SSS almost seems to stack a worse image than any of my individual images, but I feel like I've been following the instructions..
Never tried it. Have you used Siril? (featured in this video). It's free, works well on Mac. Better results than DSS for me.
@@NebulaPhotos Now that you've made it's usage accessible with a good educational video I'll give it a shot! It would be nice to cut out the steps of transferring to/from my wife's PC to use DSS. Your other comments below to other replies are super useful as well. Thanks Nico.
Hi Nico
I have cropped my image, but it still says ''plate solving failed''.
not sure how to solve this, do you have any suggestions?
thanks!
Hi Fred,
Not sure, but feel free to send my the file, and the camera/lens you used and I can take a look: nicocarver at gmail dot com.
You can also try the normal color calibration, where it doesn't need to plate solve. Just click on the red channel, and draw a small box over a dark nebula for the "black reference" and then draw a box over a blown out star core and use that as the "white reference". It will then color balance the image using those two previews as the black point and white point.
Clear skies, Nico
Hi there, just wanted to give my two cents on this. I had some issues with the plate solving also, although I feel this version improved on this. The work around for me was to play with different shapes and sizes on the crop and try again the photometric calibration until it worked. One additional comment is that if you have problems finding the pixel size for your camera you can click the get Metadata from Image to fill those automatically. Greetings from Mexico City!
Can you please do a video on processing using SIRIL for wide field milkyway photo from one of your barn door tracker. I'd really appreciate it. I'm having difficulty with SIRIL I do not use calibration frames as I just do nightscapes.
Thank you for this wonderful detailed tutorial. I downloaded the lagoon-dss.tiff and was trying to follow your instructions and when i start stretching as described at 18.23 in the video. I see it shows green overlay on the image. The history after your first stretch the blue color hitting the ceiling. When i do it, it shows Red separated from the rest of it, I followed it to the dot. Exact numbers. Little help!!
Ah, that was out of DSS without the photometric color calibration from Siril. I will put up a new file called Siril-result.tiff for you to use. Or if you are interested to see how to get that file working check out part 2a 😊 sorry for the confusion
@@NebulaPhotos Thanks for the quick response. I am excited and will take pictures tonight and following your instruction from part 2a - DSS and GIMP.
Thanks again for the details you have been sharing through these videos.
Whenever I open siril...I see completely different window. .it says siril control center. ... What do I do?
Delete the version you have, and install the beta from here: www.siril.org/2020/09/22/siril-1-0-0-beta2-testing/
So I want to align 30 frames from the perseids with Siril. I only have lights. I made all the subfolders biases/darks/flats/lights into a perseids folder. Then I go to registration but it says I have to load a sequence first. I am stuck here.
Instead of using the script, just convert the lights to FITS (convert tab) to make a sequence, then use the register tab to register the converted files. See here (but skip the stuff about calibration): siril.org/tutorials/tuto-manual/
@@NebulaPhotos It works but I need to look into that tutorial because I don't really know what I'm doing. In the meantime I downloaded a script onlylights_nodarks_noflats_nobiases and that also works and it gives me a final image which I can start processing.
Very good tutorial. Siril has come a long way from when I last looked at it. Deserves a new look. From the demo it looks to be a good alternative to DSS. Does it also replace Registax? I’ve been searching for a replacement for it since it’s become very unstable in Windows 10.
Yes, Siril replaces DSS. The replacement for Registax is Autostakkert!2.
Thanks Nico. I’ve tried Autostakkert, and it tends to work, but it isn’t as complete as Registax. I wish they would make the source for Registax so someone could bring it up to date. It’s wavelet functions were useful. It was last updated in 2011.
In your final analysis of the image, you say it's too red in the lower left and too green in the centre but to my eyes, it looks fantastic and I wouldn't know how those 2 areas should appear. To what would I reference to know the 'correct' appearance of any area of the sky? Is it just a matter of more experience (on your part) knowing how these areas appear in other photos?
It's a tricky thing, and yes you can train your eye to see these issues by looking at lots of astrophotography and putting your work out there for critique (local astronomy clubs, astrobin, etc.). When I was noticing the green and magenta color casts at the end, I was noticing them in the dark parts of the image. Typically your sky background or dark dust lanes should be a fairly neutral dark gray/black and not take on any one color too strongly. It's a bit hard to see them in this image since the milky way is nearly filling the frame.
What do u do if u can’t get the photo metric color calibration to work?
You can try the normal color calibration, where it doesn't need to plate solve. Just click on the red channel, and draw a small box over a dark nebula for the "black reference" and then draw a box over a blown out star core and use that as the "white reference". It will then color balance the image using those two previews as the black point and white point.
Clear skies, Nico
Great tutorial as always Nico. And it’s a great idea to do this in different combinations of stacking and processing software!
Question - Does the color calibration only requires reference info of stars and nebulae. I searched for Jupiter/saturn and it returns nothing. Does this mean I cannot stack photos of planets in Siril?
Hi Nikhil, yes, Siril is only for deep sky processing as far as I know. For planetary, most people use free programs like PIPP, Autostakkert, and Registax.
Cheers, Nico
@@NebulaPhotos thank you sir! Any recommendations for MacOS planetary stacking software?
Haven't used it recently but from memory, Lynkeos?
I have a question about the focal distance when doing the Photometric Color Calibration. My camera is an APS-C (Nikon). Should this be the 50mm, which was the lens I used, or the 50 x 1.5, which is the crop factor? I've looked at the docs, but they are not up to date for the beta version. Anyone know?
50mm. Rule of thumb: never use crop factors in astronomy calculations.
If my Siril stacked photo has a magenta hue what have I done wrong? Also I tried stacking without flats, biases, and darks
Likely nothing wrong. Just need to color balance your photo (either with one of the color calibration processes in Siril or more manually with curves in Gimp)
Nebula Photos thank you watching the video again. Will play around. One question I have: I own a 14mm Samyang w/ petal shaped hood and I’m having trouble getting my flats. Is it possible to run the script with no flats or will I run into any problems?
@@MoogeyTV You can read through the script file itself (it's a mere text file) to see what operations it's doing on the images. There are also scripts for One-Shot Color images with no calibration frames.
"For some reason the green channel came out quite a bit brighter than the red and the blue". I would guess that the reason is the Bayer filter on the sensor.
Why did you save the tiff image from SiriL in 16 bit and not 32 bit?
Out of habit. I'm used to using Photoshop where 32 bit is crippled.
So I’ve watched most of your videos I have a Mac so deep sky stacker won’t work so I was just wondering if u use Astro pixel processing at all and if so could u make a video of how to stack in that program thanks
This video was made completely on Mac with Siril+Gimp. Siril does everything DeepSkyStacker does and more. I have Astro Pixel Processor, but would need to learn it more before I could make video.
Nebula Photos thank you for the info
Nebula Photos are those both free or do they cost money
@@fluffhead84 they are free
Cool video, but why didn't you stretch in Siril? It's a lot quicker.
I should have. Just habit to do it in GIMP
Is available other softwares for remove stars? Starnet++ crush in my computer after the run. Oh, even Ps crushes. Just bought. The story of my life.
So Ps crashes, but GIMP doesn't? In Photoshop there is a filter called dust and scratches that can be used for star removal. Gimp doesn't have a filter like that by default, but if you are on windows or Linux you can add the GMIC plug in and use the 'remove hot pixels' to do the same thing: gmic.eu/gimp.shtml
These methods won't work as well as starnet++, but can still be worth doing.
@@NebulaPhotos GIMP goes like a Ferrari here! Is maybe my computer too obsolete? For example, about Lightroom my Creative Cloud account said "incompatible".
I'll try with the link. Just figure out how to plug in the plug in. Thank you, sir.
Oh friend. Tried all of this. But after processing on Siril, got nothing. On the Photomettric Color Calibration, Siril claims not to find the Messier. Of course, my sky was not as clean as yours, bortle8, my camera is not as good as yours (Nikon D3100), but I can see a lot of stars on the image processed.
I can see Coronae Australis. I don't know if the processing messed up something, but the fact is that it cannot find it. I could not find out how to manually set some stars on the image for it to process...
I'll keep trying, and also put Siril to process some scorpio images with antares at the center... lets see ... anyway thanks a lot.
You can use the normal color calibration. It doesn't need to find stars. You just click on blue channel, draw a box over background sky, set as black reference, then draw a box over some bright stars and set as white reference. Should work when the photometric process fails.
Sir u should try leo triplet
What if you have only have Lights. Does it work also?
With Siril, they no longer include the 'lights only' script in the pre-packaged version of the program, but you can still download the script from the 'other scripts' section here, called 'preprocessing without DBF': free-astro.org/index.php?title=Siril:scripts#Siril_scripts
Hi :) Why you saved file from Siril as 16 not 32?
Just out of habit. Forgot that GIMP support 32-bit :)
@@NebulaPhotos Have you tried later 32 bits? I'm having some strange issue when I save Siril output as 32 tif and Im trying to open it in GIMP or even in Windows Gallery app. The image is totally distorted.
@@toolan I haven't. Still have to try that. If you have difficulties, I'd just stretch in Siril and then use 16bit. Most of the extra precision is lost once you stretch.
is siril also suitble for Milky Way landscape？
It doesn't have any specific tools for adding in landscape like Sequator, but you could stack the sky portion in Siril and then add the landscape in GIMP or Photoshop.
Hi Nico!
I have been using siril now for all my images, I like for the most part but I noticed when you brought it in to gimp you did not do the histogram stench but left it as linear? I always do the hist. stretch....is that wrong?
Cheers!
Hi Edwin,
Not wrong at all! You can certainly do the histogram stretch in Siril or do it with Levels in gimp. Either way should produce similar results in the end.
Cheers, Nico
Thank you so so so much
Glad to be helpful Sam! Clear skies, Nico
Great video ! But StarNet++ is no longer available😢
It moved, still available here: www.starnetastro.com/
@@NebulaPhotos Which one to choose?
@@celestinp1767 If you are on Windows, go for the Graphical User Interface version to make it easier. Otherwise, the command line version for whatever operating system you are using.
Yup, SiriL is definitely a beta version. Froze up on me for unknown reasons. Uninstall and get the old version back :) Windows 10, x64
I'm sure the Siril devs appreciate you testing and leaving a bug report. :) I didn't run into anything while testing on Mac, but for what I did, it wasn't too different from the previous version.
@@NebulaPhotos Reinstalled the beta, and now id did finish, only to fail, in 1 hour 10 minutes or so, where the old one succeeded in 38 minutes.
Star matching failed miserably in the beta: 19 out of 71 frames skipped, where in the old one only 2 were skipped.
So, not happy with the new version yet.
Wow, that's a big difference. Thanks for the update Paul