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Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: RC BlurXterminator …. Any comments ?
Replies: 36
Views: 58958

Re: RC BlurXterminator …. Any comments ?

@Mike in Rancho have you read Shaun's Experienced Imaging thread about his "convolve then deconvolve" experiment? There was discussion from Rista about noise profiles (I guess so, because you thought Shaun's new thread was about the M101 data). Anyway, I expect you're right that applying SVD to the...
by admin
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition
Replies: 45
Views: 6538

Re: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition

This is brilliant Dietmar - I love seeing people dive deep into what's happening (and taking others along for the ride). :bow-yellow:
by admin
Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition
Replies: 45
Views: 6538

Re: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition

Hi Ivo, thank you for these additional comments, and for 'translating' them into their audio equivalents. I wonder if the audio analogy has it's limit when we look at the default settings of the scale sliders. By default, details of all scales are sharpened (100%). In terms of audio we would push u...
by admin
Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition
Replies: 45
Views: 6538

Re: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition

Wavelet Sharpening in StarTools is indeed "more" data driven than a regular wavelet sharpener, in that it uses more statistics and analysis of the data to achieve two - for AP generally - desirable things; it refrains from boosting areas that don't have enough signal (uses Tracking's signal evolutio...
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Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition
Replies: 45
Views: 6538

Re: Astro to Astro-art Continuum, 2024 Edition

If it helps, almost every processing algorithm/technique has an equivalent in "1D" such as in audio/music; For example; Wavelet sharpening is about isolating and manipulating specific frequencies (like a graphic equalizer). Deconvolution can be thought of as undoing the effects of a reverb/reflectio...
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Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 Beta
Replies: 67
Views: 690062

Re: StarTools 1.9 Beta

Small update again (1.9.561 beta 5). Chasing some odd bug that passes file dialog clicks onto StarTools on some OSs. For any macOS folks running Ventura and later (e.g. hixx ?), I also added a new way of unquarantining that I'd like to roll out if it works reliably; control + click on StarTools.app....
by admin
Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:06 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Sky Glow parameter in FilmDev
Replies: 4
Views: 24511

Re: Sky Glow parameter in FilmDev

Hi Jeff, Thank you for your post. What you appear to be suggesting would constitute data clipping/destroying (e.g. throwing away pixels below a certain threshold). This is almost never OK, except in cases where that data can be assumed to be anomalous. For this purpose you will already find a "Dark ...
by admin
Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 Beta
Replies: 67
Views: 690062

Re: StarTools 1.9 Beta

Small update with some bug fixes, UI fixes and getting rid of (hopefully) the last "UNKNOWN" log entries. :)
by admin
Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 Beta
Replies: 67
Views: 690062

Re: StarTools 1.9 Beta

Hmmm... Yeah. That's not exactly intuitive. Will fix! Thanks, Ivo. :thumbsup: Not a priority of course, especially now that I (and hopefully others?) have a bit better understanding of what Bin is wanting to do for us here. Just something for the list of UI tweaks on the path to the final 1.9. Now ...
by admin
Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 Beta
Replies: 67
Views: 690062

Re: StarTools 1.9 Beta

Hi Mike, I think this is expected behavior, and should only happen if you have chosen an integer binning mode. In that case, there are only specific "sweet spot" percentages that allow for an integer factor bin. Is that what's happening? Hi Ivo. I'll give a qualified -- aha! This starts to explain ...