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Thanks for your quick reply. I am glad to hear that I at least I got the other DSS setting right. However, I am running into a few things. I am using the latest beta version of StarTools and I seem to have an issue using the new Restore feature. If I restore to Linear and Wiped, I get what looks lik...

Thanks Ivo. I figured the Develop module was the wrong place and I have been trying to work out a translation of the Regim numbers. With regard to your scale in the color module, the value of the RGB sliders go from 1 to 10. Is 1 equivalent to 100%? So with your calculated numbers I would leave red ...

Here are my results. I just cropped out a small part of my image so I could show at full resolution. color balanced before StarTools: CROP_OLD.jpg color balance in StarTools: CROP_NEW.jpg The only thing I was not sure of was how to apply the Regim color balance values. After I did the wipe and clear...

Thanks for the tip Ivo. I had been wondering how I could incorporate Regim's color balance without affecting the StarTools noise reduction logic. Your explanation makes sense to me. I will give that a shot and let you know how it goes. It would be an awesome enhancement to add this type of color bal...

Thanks for the detailed explanation Ivo. Using the camera white balance was an easy way for me to get good looking colors but was costing me noise. I will give your suggestions a try. Taking this a step further, would it be possible to modify StarTools to solve the stars and locate G2V stars automat...

If I'm using DSS to create different stacks they will differ slightly Pick a frame from one of your stacks as a referenced frame. I usually move this frame to a higher level directory to differentiate it from the others. Then in each stack include this frame, but leave it uncheck for the stacks tha...

I am having a lot less issues with color balancing as I used to, but I would like to get a better understanding of how StarTools does it and get advice on how I can improve my process. My current method is to use a custom white balance on my modded DSLR and then have DSS use the cameras white balanc...

I have less than a year of experience with DSO AP. In June I entered the Cloudy Nights Beginner DSO challenge and won. I was just learning autoguiding at the time and was struggling with it. The old dec backlash issue with my celestron mount. StarTools played a big role in saving the image and winni...

That is awesome Ivo. Thanks for the detailed play by play. Your processing of my picture also gives me a benchmark to compare my results against. I am still learning my new mount so I hope to get some better starting data once the clouds clear. Thanks again.

Jeff

Ivo,

Just sent you an email with link. You can post your result here if you like.

Thanks,

Jeff