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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

I assumed you were still on a pier, if you ever were.

The technology that vexes me the most of the plate solving and plate scaling. Taking images on different sides of the pier, different days, different cameras, different scopes, different alignments, different seasons...and making them all come together?

No way. I don't accept it. Not possible, it's a sin against imaging. Imaging must be done in one run, one night, no change in equipment, and if you need to do a pier flip? Goodbye, you only get half the night then, no flips allowed. You'll never get an image stack to align unless it's all done at once, under highly controlled regulations. NEVER. Do all of your colors, all of the lights in one session, or give up and make it a mono image.

So saith I.

I've been perusing this site, Rogelio Bernal Andreo & Ariana Fu, Astrophotography - DeepSkyColors.com, off and on for years. This guy, Rogelio, (in Spain, I believe) used to just have his pics up to view, but these days he's selling them. Ariana is, I think, a new addition to the site. I'm not sure what her contribution is. One of my favorites a composite of Orion head to toes. He used to have text on his site that described how many photos and how much time he had in it (including you could download a hi-res copy, which I still have an use as a desktop wallpaper). I think he was also active on the Cloudy Nights forums. I think the image was a composite of thousands of photos taken over something like 6-9 months. I find that hugely impressive.

I found that some of his old site that just shares images is still on his site. https://deepskycolors.com/deepsky.html