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Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:47 am
Forum: Software Troubleshooting
Topic: Masks
Replies: 8
Views: 9464

Re: Masks

Hi Tim, When I use Decon and try to use a star mask, I cannot get the auto stars feature to work. The same feature seems to work ok when I'm trying things other than Decon. Hmmm... that sounds and smells like a bug. Thanks for reporting this. I investigated this and found a bug that could potentiall...
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Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:01 am
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: Maintaining/enhancing star colours
Replies: 1
Views: 4466

Re: Maintaining/enhancing star colours

Hi Mario, Getting color back into your stars is really quite easy to do. It is done like this; Create a star mask Launch the 'Magic' module Select 'Shrink Core' mode. This mode will shrink any overexposed parts of your stars and draw any colored part into the core. Set iterations to whatever you lik...
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Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:40 am
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: User Manual Will Not Print
Replies: 2
Views: 6328

Re: User Manual Will Not Print

Hi John, Sorry to hear you're having trouble with printing the manual. It's the first time I've come across this particular problem. Can you confirm for me you can view the manual in your PDF reader without problems? Can you confirm for me you can print the tutorials without problems? If the issue i...
by admin
Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Question on "Save" options
Replies: 1
Views: 4443

Re: Question on "Save" options

ghswen wrote:I'm currently using the trial version and have a question in regards to what the licensed copy will have as "save" options? I can't seem to locate this information anywhere.

Thx
Gordon
Hi Gordon,

StarTools outputs 16-bit TIFF files.

Cheers,
by admin
Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: using debayered integrated images
Replies: 11
Views: 25478

Re: using debayered integrated images

Hi Ivo, (Gordon here, just joined!) I'm using Nebulosity 3 for my pre-processing and it gives me a few options for debayering. 1. Color binning 2. Bilinear 3. VNG 4. PPG and 5. AHD Based on the previous post it sounds like 'bilinear' would be what I want to select, correct? Hi Gordon, Welcome to th...
by admin
Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:16 pm
Forum: Software Troubleshooting
Topic: Stacking images in ST?
Replies: 0
Views: 5729

Stacking images in ST?

A quick word on Stacking and why it isn't (yet) supported in StarTools. StarTools doesn't do stacking for the simple fact that there are already great tools out there that are free, (relatively) user friendly, and do a great job ( DSS , Registax ). The aim of StarTools is to keep cost-of-entry very ...
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Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:56 am
Forum: Software Troubleshooting
Topic: System specs for StarTools
Replies: 0
Views: 5390

System specs for StarTools

A question that comes up often is "I'm looking at buying a new machine. What are the best specs for running StarTools?" It is a question that is quite broad. The thing to remember with all image processing software, is that every time you double the horizontal an vertical resolution of your image, t...
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Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:44 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Processing History?
Replies: 2
Views: 4789

Re: Processing History?

Now implemented as of 1.2.138 beta.
Thanks Mario!
by admin
Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: using debayered integrated images
Replies: 11
Views: 25478

Re: using debayered integrated images

artefact wrote:VNG is quite harsh. Is there a way of denoising with linear data in that case.
Absolutely. You can use the De-noise module (ST 1.2+) to remove most types of noise very effectively.
artefact wrote:Playing with Wipe settings I have fixed the green problem. I will look at DSS more closely.
Good to hear! :)

Cheers,
by admin
Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: using debayered integrated images
Replies: 11
Views: 25478

Re: using debayered integrated images

Hi, Your question seems twofold. First I'll address the question about debayering. The best debayering routine is no debayering at all. In DeepSkyStacker such a method is call 'Bayer Drizzling'. By using a great number of frames which have been recorded with dithering between them, all sub pixels of...