I'm new to Astrophotography and I am having a bit of trouble processing an image in Startools. I am doing the stacking in DSS and I know some settings affect StarTools' ability to process the image. As a first step I wanted to check that I had correctly set all the options in DSS that affected Startools processing.
From reading this forum and others the main settings I have are:
Stacking Parameters:
- Light Tab: Mode: Kappa Sigma Clipping with Kappa of 2 & 5 iterations
and Select 'No Background Calibration' option
- Dark Tab: Mode: Median combination
and Check 'Hot Pixel detection and removal' and uncheck 'Dark Optimisation'
- Cosmetic Tab: Uncheck 'Detect and clean remaining hot pixels'
and uncheck 'Detect and clean remaining cold pixels'
- Result Tab: Uncheck 'Align RGB Channels in Final Image
- Raw Files Tab - Uncheck 'Use Auto White Balance' and uncheck 'Use Camera White Balance'
- Bayer Matrix Transformation: select 'Bilinear Interpolation' option
Register Settings:
- Advanced Tab: Check 'Reduce the Noise by using a median filter'
- Stacking Mode: Median Kappa Sigma Clipping with Kappa of 2 & 5 iterations
- Intermediate Files tab: Final Image File Format: TIFF or FITS
- so I need to use option 1 'Linear, was not Bayered or is whitebalanced' when opening the file in StarTools.
Are these settings correct and do you know of any other settings that are important?
Thanks,
Guy