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1.7.434a GPU In 20 minutes ST crashed closed 3 times, on crop, on decon and then on Super structure. Since you are using a GPU with rather "modest" compute power at its disposal, this may help solving the instability issues; https://www.startools.org/downloads/technical-faq/gpu-instability I have b...

I hope this is useful. I apologize for the low res and small size of the images, but the size limitations on this forum are severe. Thank you Russ - that's very useful. Is this with the very latest 1.7.434 version? I fixed a bug in that latest version that I think would cause these psychedelic rend...

dariv wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 2:34 pm When I get to the module in sequence after color, the module opens and I see the different options. The cursor spins for a few seconds and then ST just closes without warning. Happens everytime

Ok. I will investigate and see what card I have that is closest to your Quadro.

dariv wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:43 pm Still closes out of ST when I get to the super structure module with newest .434

Very odd... Does it close consistently or just randomly?
Does it close immediately as soon as you launch it?

1.7.434a GPU In 20 minutes ST crashed closed 3 times, on crop, on decon and then on Super structure. I have been watching the task manager performance tab and the GPU is only being lightly used and appears to not be the bottle neck I thought it was, it has 6Gb of memory disposable to it (windows is...

Hi Ivo, Please allow me a (surely dumb!) question. How did you manage to define the mask surrounding the galaxy? I suppose that due to the irregular border, it was not done using the lasso tool. But the other ones (by color and/or brightness) skip many pixels and/or require of a huge number of clic...

Hi, You really need to start taking flats - they are really not optional. Dithering is also important as walking noise is very apparent. I'm not sure if your bias frames are working correctly, as the data suffers from vertical stripes. Dithering may help here too. For the moment, I would concentrate...

I had issues with the isolate routine. It would not listen to the mask i set. But module did not crash , i used it several times, no crashing... The mask issue should now hopefully resolved in 1.7.434 (please be careful with selective processing!) Super Structure module crashes on my PC too. I've t...

Hi,

The Development module emulates the response of photographic film, as implemented by the Digital Development algorithm by Okano (1997). As such there is no sophisticated detail detection algorithm.

If you need a more sophisticated algorithm, please use AutoDev.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for reporting this. This should now hopefully be fixed in 1.7.434.

Please be aware of the caveats of selective processing like that though; usage of a mask may (will likely) result in non-documentary (selective processing) artifacts that are not representative of the signal as recorded.