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Hello, on 25 January I went out and imaged. The fruit of my labor is linked below. The lights are 4x6minutes captured through my TEC 140 APO ED refractor with TEC field flattener. The scope is carried on a Celestron CGE Pro and guided by an Orion Awesome Autoguider packge mounted side by side. The i...

lensman57 wrote:Hi,

Try and disable the hot pixel cleaning function in cosmetic section of DSS and see what happenes. This used to happen a lot certain of my captures, it may work for you.

A.G

Thank you, I'll try that.

The attached image shows an enlarged look at the stars in an image I'm processing with StarTools. You can see halos around the stars. I'm confident that the image is well focused, I capture images on a 60Da with BYE and use the FWHM function to focus. The focus was good. I stacked this image in DSS,...

Ivo, thanks very much for processing this stack. I've posted the same stack at another forum for others to try their hand at. Your result is excellent, particularly because I know the data that you had to work with. Later today I will copy your process so I can see the step by step changes to the or...

Ok Here it again, this time unstretched. M33 11x180 seconds lights, 3x180 seconds darks. Stacked in DSS Output in FITS (Integer). Captured in RAW (CR2) on Canon 60Da mounted on TEC 140 APO ED with field flattener. Captured in Concord California. Bortle Scale ~7 https://www.dropbox.com/s/pe6or0id8t34...

Please disregard this thread. I linked the wrong image. The link above is for my first image processed (Badly) in ST.
I'll try again later today.

The linked image is a 92 MB image of M33. It is a DSS stack of 11x180 second lights, and 3x180 second darks. The image is captured on a Canon 60Da at prime focus on a TEC 140 APO ED (f/7). ISO is 800. There was a good deal of light pollution and moon light. The images are unguided, but there is no t...

Sure, I have all the details. I just wondered if there is a specific format people use when submitting the information. IE object, camera, scope bortle scale, #frames, exposure, ISO......... Or is it just stick in as much a=info as possible and a link to a FITS file?

OK, I have some stacks of images. I have a new computer that won't choke on image processing. I have loaded an image into Google Drive and set it up for sharing with anyone that has the URL. I have worked in StarTools enough that I know enough to ask questions. What is the format for asking you expe...