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I had a quick question, which is probably trivial for the more experienced people. My main problem is that I did not come to Startools with any other software under my belt. Using the layers and/or the LRGB tools I can do just about any palette I want with emission-line data. Say, for example, I am...

Well, the post title says it all. When I try to create a star mask in this module, the progress bar just hangs in there, without doing anything. I have to cancel and get out of the module, create the star mask from the main menu, and then get back into the Sharp module again for it to work. ST 1.3....

gboulton wrote:

I don't know how many kinds of awesome there are, Ivo...

But you are all of them.

Gee, thanks Gordon. Just doing my (self appointed) job!

The stack was generated using Nebulosity and definitely has color information, since it was generated from color frames. It's just that when I open it into ST, I don't get any color. It's very strange. After inspecting the FITS file with a hex editor, I think I know what's going on. It appears Nebu...

gboulton wrote:So...what we're after here is a version of the color module that works with Luminance data only

Well, joking aside, you can actually use the Color module to create a false color version of your b & w image. It's useful for Solar images for example.

Ok, I had a look at the individual frames as well. They definitely contain color data. It appears something went wrong during the stacking stage resulting in a black & white image!

Hrmmm.... Well, now, I'm getting some pretty strange results here. When I get to the color module, I can run all three sliders to their absolute max...and get NO change. Nothing. Not so much as a pixel's difference. It's as though there's no color data there. :confusion-shrug: Yep. Seeing the same ...

It would be an honor for me if you could help me out with one of my own images, if at least to better understand how to use the Color Module. This is a stack of 21 5-minute images of Messier 64: http://db.tt/O6IZW48M Awesome! This really helps. I'll see if I can get a good color balance with the Co...

I'm afraid these are quite essential. It's this or bothering the user with saturation response curves... :( Fair enough...I'll just nod my head and pretend to understand that. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/ChibiKiriyama/NoddingSmiley.gif :lol: Exactly my point - I'd rather have just two pa...

Thanks for chiming in on this issue Gordon - It's good to know it works reliably for you, but I may have to have a look at making the procedure more intuitive... :think: Could there be a way to maybe...drop one slider? Maybe "Top End Saturation" and "Bottom End Saturation"? I have no idea...I'm jus...