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Ok, I redid it with 50% and then tried to follow my log. The colour is a little different for some reason. It looks a bit pixelated to me, the stars don't seem as smooth? What do you think? (I really need a field flattener as well). http://www.astrobin.com/full/88309/0/ Definitely gets rid of the n...

asterix2020 wrote:So should I "bin" the image first? What do you recommend?

Spot on!
Binning to '50%' should make sure that the interpolation is undone and that noise grain is confined to a single pixel again.

See here for more info if you're interested.

Thanks!
One other thing, I would perhaps not process at native DSLR resolution with 75% of your red and blue channel data made up by the debayering algorithm, as the interpolation doesn't do the noise grain any favors (this is obviously not color related).

Hi, I'm just started using Startools and I'd like some thoughts on this image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/88107/0/ I'm concerned it's too pink and saturated, it was looking ok but dull before using the colour module. Hi, I think this is an absolutely stunning result. Checking it on three differen...

Ivo. Tracking was on. I ran the same process again. No crash this time. I noticed that this data set was quite hungry. I am not sure in the first instance that processing had terminted when leaving Life. Possibly something else chewing memory in the background. On this occassion, only Thunderbird a...

Thanks for reporting this Rowland.
Hmmmm.... most peculiar - I haven't seen ST crash for months now!
Is this a replicable issue with that same data set?
Was Tracking on when you launched the Color module?

Hi! to all Question being a new to AP is DNG,TIF, and RAW the only format that StarTools well recognize? :?: Hi! Welcome to the hobby (or money pit as some like to call it :D ). StarTools recognises TIF and FITS files, fore the sole reason that these are the resulting image files that you get when ...

This is an update using a different post processing workflow. It is a derivation of the DSLR-LLRGB method, but a little different. RGB channels were extracted from the integrated image and saved separately. The RGB image was converted to greyscale and saved as L. In StarTools, L, R, G, B were combi...

Some great detail in that. Love your choice of color rendition too - muted, but well balanced. Not unlike a super human (immune to dynamic range issues) would likely perceive them close up.
Nice!

Hi, Apologies for the delay. Thanks for sharing the data - it is very helpful! It simply appears the data is misaligned. The Layer module too shows the data misaligned by about +/- 17 pixels X and +/- 10 pixels Y. They Layer module will allow you to use the Offset filter to align one of the two data...