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A brief tutorial on using Siril via the Sirilic front-end is available at http://download.startools.org/Siril%20w ... irilic.pdf

Please let me have any feedback on it and share the settings that you find work best with StarTools.

Hi again, Ivo has uploaded the tutorial at http://download.startools.org/Siril%20w ... irilic.pdf

Please let me have any feedback on it and share the settings that you find work best with StarTools.

Loving the narrowband colour blending options in the new alpha!

I see that a "No white balancing" option has been added to the latest DSS beta at Ivo's request - please can he advise which of the StarTools image open options should now be used (the second from the left?).

I've adopted Siril over the past few months via the excellent front-end utility Sirilic which simplifies the setting up for pre-processing, alignment and stacking and passes the necessary commands to Siril to do the work. The main advantages are as follows: - it's free (though I'm sure donations are...

Hi Ivo, thanks again for your feedback on this. Please could I make a feature request (assuming it makes sense!) - when working with the Layer function on non-stretched data (including data previously restored to linear/wiped form) it would be very useful to have a (temporary) stretch operation with...

Credit should go to Ron Brecher (astrodoc.ca) for his article on this technique

Thanks, Ivo, please could you post the log from this approach

Here's a full process based on the blending of the Oiii halos with Ha signal (green interpolated) The workflow I've used is as follows: - Open the stacked Ha, manually Dev it to mid-stretched sky background, save it as "Ha stretched" - Open the stacked Oiii, manually Dev it to match the Ha sky backg...

Here's a trial using a similar mask, with the (stretched and saved) Ha as the background, blended in where the stretched Oiii foreground is light; I've set the mask fuzz at a roughly optimal point but there are still some artefacts from the halos. Would you recommend any alternative Layer settings t...