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that makes sense - thank you Dietmar!

Hey Everybody, Can I get some advice on processing images in Star Tools that were captured on an Alt-Az mount? I have a Celestron Evolution and was wondering of there was a general guideline for the length of each exposure and total amount of exposures that would work well for processing before the ...

awesome - thank you!

ahhh....I think I get it now! save the individual frames in ram 16 or raw 32 and THEN run them through DSS (the one I have) before beginning processing in Star Tools. I can do some live stacking for real time for viewing, then clear that out and start a new capture of individual frames to save for p...

Thanks to all for the help and advice! Looking at my sharpcap capture folder, it looks like SC saves my images in 4 ways: 1. the individual frames are saved as .png 2. a 16 bit RAW Stack FITS 3: a 32 bit raw stack FITS 4. and "save as viewed which includes all the histogram adjustments I made - thos...

Hi Everyone, I will be doing some EAA tonight using my asi294mc-p and SharpCap. Do I understand correctly that I need to save my short exposures as RAW files to get the best results from StarTools? I normally do live stacking in sharpcap and it gives me several options for saving my captures and wan...