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Old thread I know. Would a Bash script in Linux be possible or is it necessary to write in C++?

A section of the LMC. An area rich in interesting features . Not a great image - more of a survey. Lots to keep me going with longer focal length over the SH summer. Processed in 1.5.360 - raw image was a 2 x drizzled fit file of ~228mb. Default settings - Bin 50%, AutoDev, Crop, AutoDev, Wipe, Aut...

That is truly remarkable.

Good work Michele.

If this is of any value whatsoever, never having used DSS or Nebulosity and using normalisation only as a contrast measure, programmes such as PixInsight do not normalise data, unless selected. There seems no reason to do so.

Rkonrad wrote:HI Rowland,

"Crop" should be in there to? I think that should be just before wipe if I'm not mistaken.

Cheers

Richard

Ah! Thank you Richard. My images are auto-cropped prior to opening in ST, so Crop is optional. I will edit the post.

A very basic workflow to get started and then tweak from there... Open Select option 2 Optional - Bin 71 or 50% for noise reduction - see below Crop - before or after Bin and before the next steps. May need to use Dev to see the areas to crop; then AutoDev - default Wipe - dark anomoly 2 AutoDev HDR...

Hi Richard.

PM on the way.

Hi Richard. What mount and camera do you have. For many years I ran a standalone intervalometer with integrated ditherng unguided _ It worked exceptionally well. I have the code and hardware specs if you are interested.

Exquisite...