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Good day Ivo,
Thanks for the advice, I have changed the settings in DSS as suggested, and the Artifacts are now much less prominent and the file open with out problems.

thanks for the help!

have a nice weekend
Marco

Good day Ivo, Thanks for the answer. I did use DSS to do the stacking The original autosave file, I cannot load, I have waited about 30min with no success :( The saved 32bit integer it does load after a wile but presents "tons" of artefacts. Looks like it is more a DSS than a StarTools problem. Coul...

Good day Ivo, I have upgraded to version 1.3.5.289 - 64 bit version on 64bit Win7 pro Laptop with intel I7 16Gig I got problems now by opening a particular 218 MB DSS fit file that it does not want to open, and ST hang on it. This file it opens fine with the previous installed version 1.3.5.279 The ...

Hi Amaranthus, The reason of the multiple exposures is actually simple.... As I said, this image is the result of a series of "exposure length tests" that I took with my Meade LS6" ( this is an AltAz mount ) derotating the star field with a Pyxis LE rotator. The scope of the test was to find out how...

Good day, This is the result of the last 3 days of the testing of my AltAz imagining setup. Meade LS6" with 0.63x FR EOS1100D ISO400 Those where stacked in DSS + Flat, dark and bias 34 light frames x 240sec 5 light frames x 500sec 3 light frames x 600sec 1 light frames x 900sec Imaged with APT Solve...

Hi Alvinillo,

Thanks, that is a good idea, to check astrobin, I choose this one because it "looked pretty" in stellarium...

Clear skies
Marco

Hi Alvinillo, Thanks for your reply, Yes, The Meade LS6" is f10, but for imagining I use a Focal Reducer at 6.3. I also thought the this was a faint object but was not sure, will get more imagining time on it, it is in this period in a nice place in the sky from my location to image :) Nice pic of t...

Good day Ivo, I'm into AP since about 8 months, and with the my Meade LS6" (AltAz mount) I usually took 45-60 second frames, (lots of them DSS stacked) and I managed nice results with StarTool out of them. Since last week, I finally managed to install a derotator on my AltAZ mount to take longer exp...

Hi Ivo, thanks for the tip, I was using an inverted star mask to protect the stars in the Fractal flux. I need a bit of advice on the next pic that is giving me troubles :( it is M-106 1h54 minutes of 40sec frames DSS stacked. The moon was shining from the right side and i get all that yellowish hal...

And this is the log for Bode's StarTools 1.3.5.279 Fri Mar 07 18:06:28 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------- File loaded [C:\Users\Marco\Pictures\1-Telescope\Canon\APT\Camera_1\2014-03-06\Autosave.fts]. --- --- Auto Develop Parameter [Ignore Fine Detail <] set to [Off] Par...