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I have noticed during the 'wipe' process that I seem to be unable to cancel an option. Suppose I click 'vignetting', see the result and then wish to 'cancel' that option and try other options. I am not certain how to proceed apart from cancelling the whole process and restarting wipe. Sometimes duri...

Hello Rowland Just spotted your reply. [Its a pity that the forum doesn't include notifications about posted replies.] I didn't realise that the 'link' that I posted was rubbish. I originally copied a proper link to the actual images but it obviously didn't paste properly. Sorry. I am working on cle...

I am currently practising again on ST and as of this afternoon, I have been waiting for an interestingly long time for a 'precision' setting to works its way through. My camera is an SX M25C (image binned x2). After two hours waiting it occurred to me that if an estimated time for the function to co...

Sorry - forgot to answer questions:

No filter used. Stacking choice DSS and Maxim DL v5.23. I usually use DSS for most calibrations (all settings as per ST). Earlier reference to manual implied better to use no filter.

Lawrence

Ivo - thank you so much! Re lack of calibration data: The exposures are short (30 sec subs) but I have retained bias files. The darks would add noise in such short exposures (Starlight Xpress recommend not using darks below ~ 60 sec or so to avoid adding noise. I do have darks though. I am using an ...

I am posting to Dropbox; the file is a fits of ~70Mb. It is a 'master' from six 30 sec images with *no* calbrations. Taken under full moon (to test) using an f2 Celestron 11" Edge, I am in the early stages of imaging at f2 and consider myself a starter with ST. Some of the images are not bad after b...

http://spaceweathergallery.com/

The three images were taken on the night of the full moon, together with others. I cannot work out how to clean them all up but these three cropped screen dumps were posted to Spaceweather.com

When I can master ST I will register it.

Lawrence Harris

I took a number of images last night because it was my first clear night for many days. I avoided the region of the full moon but the images do have quite a bit of background light. Despite this I am happy that they show some detail. My problem is still a lack of real familiarity with ST. I have don...

Some time back I queried the appearance of the grid showing up on autodev. That problem was identified as me having used the wrong debayer setting. However, I have taken some images of the sun with my Ultrastar camera and after debayering with the correct setting (RGGB) the grid reappears on loading...

You were absolutely correct. I increased the dark anomaly a little and the colourations progressively disappeared. My only comment is that it was one image so no stacking problems could exist. I shall try to create some pristine starter images (fully corrected stacks) and then practise. Thanks Lawre...