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  • I know a few attendings that use it for dictation. It’ll record the entire convo with the patient, plus whatever the doc dictates to it, and by the time they’re out of the room a note is typed up in the right format they wouldn’t have to stare at the computer the whole visit. According to them it’s a lot more time efficient to have it dictate the notes and double check them at the end of the day, versus typing something up after every patient. It is approved by the hospital and integrated directly into the EMR, so I guess it’s HIPAA compliant







  • Shot this last year but didn’t get around to processing it until now. Captured over like a dozen nights in December 2024 from a bortle 9 zone. Sh2-170 is probably most known for being the dot that makes up the larger ‘question mark nebula’ (not my pic, but this one is in true color). The nebula in my pic is false color, but the stars are true color. Captured over a bunch of nights from November 30 to January 11th, from a bortle 9 zone.

    Places where I host my other images:

    Flickr | Instagram


    Equipment:

    • TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

    • Orion Sirius EQ-G

    • ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

    • Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

    • ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

    • Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

    • Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

    • Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

    • ZWO ASI-290mc for guiding

    • Moonlite Autofocuser

    Acquisition: 86 hours 29 minutes (Camera at -15°C), unity gain

    • Ha - 141x600"

    • Oiii - 184x600"

    • Sii - 167x600"

    • R - 90x60"

    • G - 90x60"

    • B - 89x60"

    • Darks- 30

    • Flats- 30 per filter

    Capture Software:

    • Captured using N.I.N.A. and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.

    PixInsight Preprocessing:

    • BatchPreProcessing

    • StarAlignment

    • Blink

    • ImageIntegration per channel

    • DrizzleIntegration (2x, Var β=1.5)

    • Dynamic Crop

    • DynamicBackgroundExtraction

      duplicated each image and removed stars via StarXterminator. Ran DBE with a shitload of points to generate background model. model subtracted from original pic using the following PixelMath (math courtesy of /u/jimmythechicken1)

      $T * med(model) / model

    Narrowband Linear:

    • Blur and NoiseXTerminator

    • StarXterminator to completely remove stars from each the image

    • HistogramTransformation to stretch each Ha Oiii and Sii image to nonlinear

    Broadband/RGB linear:

    • ChannelCombination to make color image from R G and B stacks

    • SpectrophotometricColorCalibration

    • HSV repair to fix blown out star cores

    • StarX (correct only)

    • StarX to make a stars only image

    • ArcsinhStretch + Histogramtransformation to stretch nonlinear (Calling this the Stars image now)

    Nonlinear:

    • Pixelmath to combine stretched narrowband images into color image (SHO --> RGB)

    • SCNR green

    • Several curve transformations to adjust lightness, contrast, saturation, color balance, etc

    • ColorSaturation

    • NoiseXterminator

    • LRGBCombination with stretched Ha as luminance

    • LocalHistogramEqualization

    • shitloads more curves

    • another slight scnr

    • Pixelmath to add in the stretched RGB Stars image from earlier

      This basically re-linearizes the two images, adds them together, and then stretches them back to before. More info on it here)

      mtf(.005,

      mtf(.995,Stars)+

      mtf(.995,Starless))

    • few more curve adjustments

    • DynamicCrop again (just a little bit)

    • Resample to 50% (to hide my shitty noise reduction job)

    • Annotation