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thanks a lot for your detailed response Adam. Glad to hear that I'm slowly, very slowly, getting ahead. I have a more realistic view of SPCC now, and what you explain probably applies to PCC and standard color calibration as well. So in order to bri…
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I think the main problem is that on my OSC light frames the colors are too faint, probably insufficient exposure. SPCC won't or can't do much about it. So my only question is about the ImageSolver. I opened it, clicked Search, entered IC405, and it…
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thanks for your quick response Adam, as always, much appreciated. I might have messed up, I'll start over with the DSLR images I have. I'll post the integrated image before and after SPCC, hopefully that gives you an idea. Was kind of hoping SPCC is…
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Hi Adam, never mind above, was some issues on my computer, it's fixed now. I could run SPCC but the result is rather disappointing, IC405 looks like a mono-image. Does PI "eats" colors somewhere in the calibration, registration or integration proces…
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Hi Adam, I think I managed to enter astrometric data through ImageSolver into my DSLR Integrated Image, but running SPCC now gives me the error below. Any idea? Much appreciated. thanks, Matt *** Error: Invalid Gaia DR3/SP XPSD server execution: Co…
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Yeah I watched Cassiopeia Part 1+2. I see it's back to the previous PCC, not SPCC. That's fine, thanks.Good idea to shoot this with a 35mm lens. I never thought of that. Will try it.Clear skies!
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I watched the video in the second link, and it is really helpful, but again you start out with FITS files that already have the coordinates of the image-center. My Nikon does not provide that. So I guess the only way is to ensure that the object I'm…
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thanks! Will do and let you know.Matt
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sorry for any confusion. Referring to your 1-3, I have 2-3, but not 1. And yes, I load my RAW files directly into PI. I shoot them with my 135mm and 500mm lenses and my Vixen S103 telescope, but it does not provide astrometric data either. I'm missi…
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thanks Adam. Yes it's entirely correct. My Nikon does not capture astrometric data. So are you saying that Maxim DI could figure out the astrometric data of my raw images by "looking" at the image? Plus some input I would be able to provide, like …
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Hi Reggie, this may help.https://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-combining-lrgb-with-narrowband.html
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thanks Ron. Of course I appreciate every "butting in". I was just frustrated because PCC worked fine in the past, and I cursed myself for ever doing any upgrades. I guess they moved the "astrometric" info from PCC to other functions where they can b…
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thanks. Anything that can be done in post-processing to focus them?It's my camera, the live-view shows a lot of noise in the dark, and the stars are quivering around even when the telescope doesn't move. So very hard to focus, sometime it works, som…
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thanks Adam. I tried an unlinked STF and the results are much better. Not sure why. I think I have to rewatch some videos in FastTrack Training. Is it better not to include dark frames if they do not match the exposure-time of the light frames? Deal…
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add- I used RGGB for debayering. Has always worked ok with my Nikon D850. The only difference, previously I used Nikon-lenses, this time I used a telescope. Could that have any impact? Thanks.
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Could be the quality of the images themselves of course, basically I just want to be sure that I'm on the right track. 2 screenshots are attached, the first one the raw file, showing a bit of pink-purple around M16, the second one is the debayered v…
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thanks Adam for the quick reply. I fully agree with your comments about the videos, that's why I signed up here; being fully aware that if things are not fully understood and/or done wrongly at the beginning they are hard or impossible to rectify la…