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Hi Martin, All of your last images are of excellent quality. Seems that you figured out everything to perfection. :thumbsup: And thanks for mentioning your experience using AutoDev vs. FilmDev in this case. Very interesting. I guess we will have some more discussions regarding OptiDev ... but I hope...

I think I remember that from Andy, but thought it was before the latest OptiDev fix? I agreed with his sentiment, but was of the opinion that old OptiDev-AutoDev was causing some of that harshness, and again due to the stellar profile problem as we have found. But I'd have to go back to old threads...

I find the stretches of autodev to be very conservative and low contrast - especialy in the later versions of startools Yes the latest release can give a feeling of being muted after OptiDev, relative to what we were probably all used to. This came about from increasing bit depth...or something lik...

It's like I have a new computer. :thumbsup: I like the fact that you you're not throwing away old hardware and that you are running Linux. In the past I always assembled my PCs by myself and installed Linux on them. The only reason that I'm currently using Windows is because it came pre-installed o...

Polar lights visible way down in Southern California! Who would have thought?! I was ill-prepared. :( I was ill-prepared, too. Mostly, because I just didn’t believe that there would be anything to see or to photograph. And than I only had my compact camera mounted onto a super tiny tripod, crawling ...

Hi Richard, this is what I can contribute - ad 3.: Most times these crashes occur due to insufficient virtual memory (settings). Please have a look at this FAQ (which was the solution in my case some time ago): https://www.startools.org/downloads/technical-faq/sporadic-crashes But yes, instead of sl...

Hi Freddy! :) I agree, this galaxy looks often a bit purplish on images. I think this is because it shows lots of HII regions in it, probably often pronounced by NB accents. These red accents together with the blue of the spiral arms may give a purple impression. And those rich dust lanes may lead t...

Hi Stefan, thanks! :) Yes, a lot of detail, more than I had hoped for. The sunflower is clearly visible. But honestly, just because of SVDecon. Thanks for pointing out the purple cast. That seems to be a recurring problem for me. Processed seven (ty-seven) times and still off target. :( . I think it...

Hi all, after - as Freddy wrote - 'ages' of cloudy nights there have been a few clear nights here for me. Finally I solved my problem with the guiding of my EQ6-R via KStars / EKOS. I switched off the internal EKOS guider and moved to external guiding via PHD2. This now works flawlessly. I've no ide...

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