As someone pretty new to astrophotography I've got to say that the new VeraLux Siril scripts by Riccardo Paterniti have been fantastically useful for me.

I've been happy doing preprocessing using built in Siril functions. 1st order polynomial background subtraction on the individual exposures, registration, culling bad exposures, stacking, photometric colour calibration, that's all good. Then comes the processing of the stacked image, and I'd be a bit lost without the VeraLux scripts.

VeraLux Silentium for noise reduction, then back to Siril built-ins for a bit of deconvolution sharpening, VeraLux Nox to remove any residual background, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch for dynamic range compression, VeraLux Revela to add some local contrast back to the details, then VeraLux Curves to fine tune the tone mapping. Maybe a final tweak to the histogram using the built in tools, then I'm done.

At most steps I only feel the need to make fairly minor adjustments to the default/automatic parameter values to get the look that I want.

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