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In the end astrophotography is fairly reliant on creativity and the image you end up with will be quite different from mine even if we use the same data. The goal of documentary photography is to be the least reliant possible on creativity, and the most reliant on what has been captured. Using the ...

Hi Ivo, everyone 1.9.570 Is there a changelog, anything you need testing or feedback upon? Cheers, Steve Hi Steve, There is a CHANGELOG file included that details all the changes between the beta versions. The current things being tested are the translations and an AutoDev enhancement; If you are a...

I added a "Brightness Tranches" setting in AutoDev to the latest beta. You can now choose which precision is most suitable for your dataset. It specifies the granularity with which tranches (e.g. brightness continuums) are isolated for curve construction. As a general rule of thumb, start off by mat...

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Thanks Ivo, I am using Ubuntu LXDE and Mint Cinnamon on Linux. So this does not happen with you? For me every time. Never with version 8. Thanks again. Richard I'm using Mint MATE here. Are you running the latest 1.9 beta? There was a bug some versions ago that indeed caused a crash in the Synth mo...

Hi Richard, Thank you for your report. 1. In version 8 and 9 (maybe 7 too), in the sharpening module, the "before" is grayed out when using the default 300%. 299 or 301 enables it. I can indeed replicate this if no new mask is generated. This indeed needs fixing. 2. In version 9, clicking on the sta...

Moon glare is really Wipe's domain. Of course, stray moon light will greatly add to the noise and make it harder to collect data on faint objects. However, not all of us can image under pristine skies - we have to get what we can to get. If you find yourself in this situation often, narrowband filte...

Hi all, With the exceptional help of decay and hixx , multi-language support is coming along quite nicely, making StarTools more accessible for non-English users. :thumbsup: We now have a rudimentary French translation, but we could really use the eyes and brains of some true native French speakers ...

I'm definitely not proposing we should be doing 16-bit stacking, however the assumption is that the source material is *multiple subs* of 10, 12, 14 or 16-bit quantized data, where values fell within the range of 0 to /1024, 4096, 16384 or 65536. Stacking multiple subs will - in essence - add 2^(sta...

Links to download M3 stack https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/19k8e7fvq4l1jsj7zxvhi/M3_220x45s_GESDT-default_rgb.fit?rlkey=dv1uk4qakasttfxnukga5hwi4&dl=0 Single sub https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yp36jy170m8q9yywy0346/M3_test_single_sub_336.fit?rlkey=w5jepx5ajz6jj3oeqh2nmieja&dl=0 Thank you for uploadi...