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by decay
Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:34 pm
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: Crab Nebula HOO questions
Replies: 18
Views: 29011

Re: Crab Nebula HOO questions

Cool stuff! I didn't know this was in the ol' Orion neighborhood. Will have to try it out - though I'm a little short on reach with the scope I like using these days. Hi Mike, yes that's a fascinating object that I have wanted to shoot for quite a time. But be prepared to get a somewhat ridiculous ...
by decay
Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:00 pm
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: Crab Nebula HOO questions
Replies: 18
Views: 29011

Re: Crab Nebula HOO questions

Hi Jeff, I had a quick go with your nice dataset ('RGB'). That all seems fine to me, nothing unusual. No problem to balance the channels to taste. I'm not sure - is there a problem to get it to work for you or is it more the question what the 'right' colour balance should be? Regarding Ha/OIII balan...
by decay
Sat Dec 17, 2022 5:58 pm
Forum: Image Processing Troubleshooting
Topic: Crab Nebula HOO questions
Replies: 18
Views: 29011

Re: Crab Nebula HOO questions

Hi Jeff, what a fantastic dataset :bow-yellow: ! So much detail. I tried M1 last night (visual spectrum) as well, but it only was a big mess. So jealous. What scope do you use? AFAIK you don't need to extract the channels beforehand. ST will do that for you. Just load the same file into the RGB slot...
by decay
Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 preview
Replies: 156
Views: 316391

Re: StarTools 1.9 preview

but they appear to have been ignored in favour of what to me look like noisy pixels Something similar here: There are some correctly choosen starfishies, but a lot of good candidates are ignored and yes - a lot of empty starfishies are there as well. :think: I could provide the dataset and log, if ...
by decay
Tue Dec 13, 2022 4:45 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: ST running in VM shows constantly high CPU load
Replies: 2
Views: 12758

Re: ST running in VM shows constantly high CPU load

How many cores did you allocate to the VM? Thanks Ivo! :) It was only one lonely single CPU core and now with two it works fine! :thumbsup: Some usage by the UI thread (and any OS functions that are spawned by it such as file dialogs) is expected It was much more than that - one of the 4 'physical'...
by decay
Tue Dec 13, 2022 4:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 preview
Replies: 156
Views: 316391

Re: StarTools 1.9 preview

Mike in Rancho wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 5:45 pm that issue on the Mask settings was also in 1.8 and was noted as a bug to be fixed
Oh, OK Mike, I must have missed that in the discussion of the starfishies. And thanks for the hints to workaround. That's important to know since using starfishies is now mandatory.

Best regards, Dietmar.
by decay
Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:23 am
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: ST running in VM shows constantly high CPU load
Replies: 2
Views: 12758

ST running in VM shows constantly high CPU load

Hi Ivo, not sure if it’s of any relevance, I just wanted to report: As I wanted to do a side-by-side comparison of SVDevon version 1.8 and 1.9, I tried to run one ST instance on a virtual Linux machine. But that doesn’t seem to work. ST starts up, but it constantly eats up about 20% of CPU load, rig...
by decay
Mon Dec 12, 2022 6:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 preview
Replies: 156
Views: 316391

Re: StarTools 1.9 preview

Saying that, I am actually looking for feedback on the SVDecon workflow/UI. The automatic determination of sample size and automatic apodization mask generation in particular (any failure cases). Note also that you should now be able to select stars that have overlapping sampling areas (if need be)...
by decay
Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 preview
Replies: 156
Views: 316391

Re: StarTools 1.9 preview

That's odd... You should definitely see marked changes. You do typically need to increase the number of iterations however... Thank you, Ivo. I tried some more iterations (16), but there was no change regarding this "Spatial Error' parameter setting (please see post above). But as said, that's prob...
by decay
Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: StarTools 1.9 preview
Replies: 156
Views: 316391

Re: StarTools 1.9 preview

Hi Jochen, thanks for all your replies :) Please try 10-13 iterations, some highlight headroom 1.05, Resampling & Centroid Tracking, Deringing around 30% and crank up theSpatial error and use some of the deformed stars as samples I did all that (and some more iterations, like Ivo suggested), but the...