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Ivo Thanks for your advice I tried the Heal module and then Layer As you mentioned it is not a natural fix but does obscure the remnants of dust donuts to some degree although the darker background behind the stars is still noticeable Started learning how to take flats with an A3 LED sketching panel...

I’ve had my new ZWOASI2600MC for 2 weeks now and have imaged mostly Nebula ( 90% of image field covered with nebulous etc... ) Last night I imaged M30 globular cluster ( first image with a majority of interstellar space in the image ) and after processing noticed 2 large dust donuts in the off axis ...

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Ivo, I’ve synthesised a synthetic luminance data set as per your advice in IIS , red , green and blue with double exposure time for green etc.........and processed in mono until the colour module But I’m having trouble understanding your procedure for synthesising a green blue ( Cyan) data set Could...

Ivo Thanks for the suggestion I processed M16 again and used a Star mask ( Stars) during colour and adjusted feature size and filter a bit The mask improved by capturing the majority small stars and then I just tidied up the big stars with Lasso Took some time but a much improved star field against ...

I just finished processing my first OSC narrowband image of M16 in version 1.5 and reasonably happy with the final image, however a majority of the small stars ended up bleached out by the background nebulosity colour and the Fat stars were not white but with blotchy edges etc... ( I used Stars , af...

Ivo Thanks for the suggestions and information Found the issue, I had an .exe file extension on the V1.5 file name As soon as it was removed , Version 1.5 opened without the message and I processed some old data of M42 It processed and tracked perfectly Now to spend some time and learn the changes a...

I recently set up Startools v1.5 and every time I open it I get a message box titled “Host Multiplatform Message” with the following description - Could not modify tracking data.Please make sure Startools has read/write permission for the folder you are running the application from. Note : I still h...