NOTE: when I mention crop, it has to be intended as a minimal crop to remove stacking artifactsĮdited by Jacksparrow86, 28 January 2019 - 05:56 PM. Round Two: Importing Your Photographs to Darktable and Lightroom The first big difference between the applications starts right in the beginning of your workflow. In the following two posts I am gonna describe the process I followed and show you the results. The raw images were acquired from a class 7.1 (red zone) sky with the following equipment:

Pre-processing in SiriL, and post-processing in SiriL + Gimp + Darktable.

Full pre and post processing in PixInsight.

If the contrast slider is set to 0 this slider will not have any effect. This is equivalent to the contrast fulcrum slider on the color balance module. middle gray Set the fulcrum point for the contrast slider. More in detail, I am going to present the results that I got on the Orion nebula by using two software paths: The user can therefore choose a particular estimator that provides the best results for the given image. Although there are a lot of information out there, I wanted to share my experience as a beginner to show which types of results I was able to achieve with different software packages. I have seen many many post about people that want to get started with astrophotography but are rather unsure about which software to use when it comes down to pre and post processing the images.

Darktable tutorial for beginners