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Hi everyone, Last night I managed to get some time on M33, and as a beginner to the hobby who is recently coming back to it after taking the (very busy!) summer off, I could use some help. I was able to capture ~1 hour of data on M33, and while I intend to grab more, I wanted to see what I could do ...

Oh, sorry. Yes, this is the latest 1.4 Alpha.

Simple bug report: When using the Win64 version of the application, StarTools will crash if you do the following: 1) Open an image 2) With Tracking active, open the denoise module. 3) Tap "Next," go to the main denoise GUI. Wait for the module to finish working. 4) Tap "Back." 5) Tap "cancel." StarT...

Got it. What do you mean don't align data in Dss?

Hi everyone, I took some images of the Horsehead nebula the other night and I've started to look into processing them. Unfortunately I've run into a roadblock in the form of the following artifact. This is immediately after autodeveloping, wiping (gradient), and then developing only. http://i.imgur....

Burly wrote:Just a note you have to go into the fits settings in DSS and set the Bayer matrix to what is relevant to your camera from the drop down list,if you haven't done so.

Does this apply if we're passing DSS Canon CR2 RAW files? (As opposed to FITS files.)

DSS unfortunately insists on color balancing your data, so assuming you've got some DSLR data that you have stacked with DSS, choose option #1. Option #2 is also for data from a bayered source (e.g. with 2x more green pixels than red or blue), but for data that has not been color balanced in any wa...

If using DeepSkyStacker, have a read here for the correct settings and a quick-start workflow . Out of curiosity, is hot pixel detection and removal in the DSS dark frame settings permissible? I understand not wanting to do any sort of calibration, but I'm still working out how "virgin" the data ou...

Thanks, Ivo! Appreciate the reply with info and the complement.

Hey thanks! The image was taken with an AT72ED on an iOptron Smart EQ Pro. The Canon had a Astronomik CLS filter in it, hence the blue everywhere. Sadly it's basically a necessity in my Bortle 7 skies. Appreciate your help greatly! Looks like you really cut the noise more than I did. I really like i...