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Yes - super helpful. But my data looks acceptable? I think the root cause is that I just need more practice processing. Thanks. Tim
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I do go starless for all of the processing. However, StarXterminator leaves the halos behind thus my problem. I get these not so attractive blue donuts when I put everything back together (attached). Would either of your suggestions help with that? …
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Haha! Sounds like a fair trade! I'll be happy to accept 10% of the royalties. :) I did a run without calibrating the flats with the new data. It worked just fine, but there was a pretty high amount of noise in the final integration compared to what…
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Do despite more or less definitively ID-ing the bias as the culprit, I'm still puzzled. Something else has to be going on here. I have successfully calibrated images in the past from the Ra using a bias. And I do take my biases in the dark most of t…
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I've done a little more investigation, and here's what I've found out: 1. light-dark in PixleMath looks fine2. ((light-dark)/flat)*med(flat) looks bad where flat = a calibrated flat, and dark = calibrated dark3. ((light-dark)/flat)*med(flat) looks b…
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Master bias and dark added to the dropbox link. On the chance the bias I was using was the culprit, I created a new one, and tried again, but got the same result. The bias at the link is a stack of 150+ frames/ISO 3200/@1/8000". I through in an unca…