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I've had issues with this same thing, although I usually don't have an issue in 1.4. Best route for success that I've found is decon first thing after the bin, crop, wipe, develop steps - when I do anything else first is when I start to get random white pixels pop up in decon.

Wanted to share my result of a quick "HDR" image of M42 and the Running Man. This is only 5x 120s lights (plus darks/flats/dark flats), shot at 400ISO with my Nikon D5100, CCDT67 reducer, and 6" GSO RC. Encountered some guiding issues so didn't get as many subs as I would have liked. I processed the...

My understanding is for all linear, non-whitebalanced data coming out of a DSLR (full spectrum modded or not), use the second option since it was bayered (ie, came from a device with a 'Bayer' color filter array). On the white balanced question, if you are stacking the raw files, and have the settin...

Better results this time by preprocessing both color and luminance, then layering them with the Color of Fg option in the the layer module. I also took more care while processing the luminance file to focus on the detail I wanted, and heavily denoising the color file. I'm pretty happy with this one....

Ok, better result by processing the luminance first. Still needed to use the "Cap Green to Yellow" option in the color module to keep so many of the stars from looking green...I know it's hard to critique the result without knowing the processing steps I used for each, but I don't see much improveme...

Shot a decent set with the filter in place last night, but I'm having some issues combining them. I tried loading the unstretched LP filtered stack directly into LRGB as luminance, and the color image as all three channels, but after stretching and wiping it looks like an over-saturated mess - the g...

Step 1 completed, 19 full-color frames in this one of M31, thought I'd share this as a step by step to see what improvement can be gained. Plan is to add ~20 subs through a dgm npb filter as luminance and combine in the LRGB module.

https://flic.kr/p/Baz1im

First off, a huge thank you to Ivo for a wonderful program...I have thoroughly enjoyed getting some great results in this growing hobby of mine in large part due to your tireless work on StarTools. I image mostly from my suburban backyard red/orange zone, and I've seen Ivo mention the technique of u...