Show HN: Stop buying expensive gear, improve your processing skills instead (opens in new tab)

Hey HN, It's easy to get caught in the trap of thinking the next expensive piece of gear is what's holding your astrophotography back. I've found that the biggest gains often come from improving my processing skills, not the hardware. To test this idea, I took some of my old data going back four years and reprocessed it from scratch using my current workflow. The difference is night and day!

I made a video walking through the entire process to show how much potential is hiding in the data you probably already have. It covers my main steps in Siril, Photoshop and SETI Astro Suite from the initial background extraction and color calibration to using modern tools like Cosmic Clarity and Graxpert to really make the details pop.

My hope is to show that focusing on your post-processing technique is often the most effective upgrade you can make. Happy to answer any questions about the workflow!