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Drawing the borderline between astrophotography and painting seems to be hard. I think, in photography, "creativity" should be limited to the techniques used by image processing, but not be "creativity" in terms of the subject rendered. This should always root in real data, else it would be "paintin...

I assume You used a color cam and split the channels. From one stack You'll get: R= Ha and G/B = O3. From second stack You'll get: R= S2 and G/B = O3 A better way might be to do a third stack with images from both filters to increase integration time for O3= G &B channels to reduce noise Then load S...

Hi Richard,
please have a look at Guy's excellent User Notes with description of all parameters, including best practice
viewforum.php?f=12
If You look for a document, these are also included in the Inofficial guide available on ST download site

Clear Skies!,
Jochen

Please don't talk weather, it's the same here in Germany.... :-( I try to get around the noise issue by doing Luminance shots using a Duoband filter which creates the highest signal / shot noise ratio (at least for faint Ha & O3 objects). It's not helpful for Stars / Galaxies, but as they are bright...

Hi Melty, I definetely agree on the Redistribute part here. Mostly I don't need Repair at all, thanks to my APO but if I do, I usually use Warp. Sometimes Redistribute creates "Saturn-like" globs with surrounding rings. I think that this is highly dependent on the star mask, and this is where improv...

these are _local_ contrast enhancements and for me _local_ contrast enhancements are always a ‘ manipulation of reality’ Hi, I'd say in this regards, all Post Processing would be a manipulation of reality. Think of an Arcsinh stretch, White balancing or whatever. The key point is the conditions det...

Hi, thanks for the straightforward procedure the unquarantine process worked for me with following changes: 1) The "Terminal in Folder command is hidden in a sub menu. In the menu that opens upon Ctrl-click, You'll need to select "Dienste" (services) first to open the sub menu 2) sh u didn't auto-co...

Hi,
Jeff's idea for black point touch up might be a potential feature for a (future) touch up module: introducing subtle dithering, e.g. using Denoise's "Grain Equalization" parameter, while adjusting black point. Thus it would apply signal theory properly, avoiding clipping.
Clear Skies,
Jochen

Hi Ivo,
I still see the 1.9.559 beta 3 version from 9/25 on download page.....
Regards,
Jochen

Hi Dietmar, This might be a non-issue, leaving the IFD after BIN the same value as before BIN is the real issue here Whether or not You set IFD in the initial stretch, WIPE will always carry over the IFD of the final stretch! Consequently, If you choose to BIN, You'd have to readjust IFD anyway, so ...