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  • The noise doesn't look right to me.It just looks wrong.But without processing it myself from scratch I guess I cannot tell.You would need to prove at each step everything makes sense. You are welcome to post each of the intermediate files (jpeg scre…
  • Also, consider lessening the number of threads that PixInsight can use in parallel. You will likely want to limit this if you are experiencing crashes. -the Blockhead
  • The way Horizons works is that you pay an initial fee to get in and access everything. Currently this is $275. After that it is $75 annually to maintain the access. If you let your subscription lapse.... then you will need to pay the full amount to …
  • Unfortunately this is a case where I would need to see the data from the beginning.If you want to continue to work on this... here is what you can do...I cannot take all of the it. But let's go another round. If I am reading your history correctly y…
  • The parameter you want is the exposure tolerance in the Post Calibration panel of WBPP.Increase this to be larger than the largest difference between your exposures. In your case 301 seconds.This will make WBPP integrate all of the frames together (…
  • Yeah...I think that is correct. You are right.I think it might be around $25. It really is the right tool.However, you can do something similar with the native PI LN... it will just be more difficult to make work and in this particular usage less ac…
  • Hi Frank, First I just want to say... people come to my site and see all of my material and assume (I think) I literally have done everything! (and if I have not...I need to get right to it! lol). It so happens that back in the day I did actually to…
  • This content is mostly located in Horizons with some examples. However, I do have enough demonstrations on ImageBlend you can work out how this is done quickly.The naive way to proceed is to take your Ha information, color it red and blend it into t…
  • Yep... that is the answer... glad to help...didn't want to assume.-the Blockhead
  • Hmm... just to be clear. You did change the registration method to be "By Keyword" correct?I would not expect this to be a limitation of your computer. -the Blockhead
  • I didn't recommend 100. I recommended a value that will always be large enough. The automatic pedestal that is now available is fine. The difference between 35 or 50 is negligible.You believe that the pedestal has something to do with the results of…
  • Hi Bill, It is up now... I am going as FAST as I can!Please look again.. WOW..that is a striking image of the comet. Looks like a Celestial weapon! I do not think Luminance is worth is given that the comet is bright and time is limited. -the Blockhe…
  • I just put up the A3 Comet Tracked Method example...it is all there for you now.-the Blockhead
  • Did you see the Comet Lemmon example?I will be uploading the A3 example today. -the Blockhead
  • I am not certain I understand. When you do comet subtraction you are using a comet aligned *masterlight* frame to subtract from individual staraligned frames. You would not want to subtract a single sub from a staraligned frame... it would not work …
  • Certainly sounds reasonable in terms of number of frames. I would, however, dither each frame. I do not understand why people do not do this. I am not saying this is it..but dither algorithms can make patterns. Whether you are benefitting in terms o…
  • Yeah..I really should make it clear. If you have dithered data... and you want to not double interpolate you will need to click on the comet in each frame. OR... you can run CometALignment on the StarALigned frames and take advantage of linear motio…
  • Drizzle is a funny algorithm. The map is supposed to show you the density of drizzled information (and whether there are "holes" due to the fact there isn't enough information (not enough files to begin with).Are you certain you want/need to be driz…
  • Neural net (machine learning) is a bit different in this regard. Its behavior depends on the training used to make it. So the difference in behavior for before and after stretching is not something you can predict and say as you do for example there…