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As an LRGB newbie I came upon the issue of LRGB Dark frames. Who knew there had to be complete sets of LRGB dark frames! Flat frames yeah, that makes...
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They're the same principle and set up with the same criteria but as Kathy points out, LRGB flat frames will probably have different exposures from...
Hi, found this interesting article and felt it's worth a share here.
Hope I posted this in the correct sub forum, if not, the mods can move it to the...
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I had a darkroom back in the 70s, a lot of fun and frustration :)
I have not been bitten by the astrophotography bug and am not up to speed whatsoever on the current state of processing but have a question. With all...
Just curious if anyone has tried Starnet2 yet? StarNet2 was released on 1/24/22.
A few months ago, I jumped from Starnet++ to StarXTerminator and...
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I tried downloading starnet at but the website is not loading.
If anyone could share the file it would be a great help.
I need the standalone version...
Well, my philosophy follows. I thought I would always go for the most 'true' or accurate respresentation of a target. This was a inaccurate idea, all...
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Hi Pete,
The main thing is that people are looking up and realising the vastness of it all. Nature is a very powerful force and I find it very...
I hope I can get what is in my mind through my finger tips in an understandable manor as I type this question.
I have used master calibration frames,...
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Hi Kerry - You only save the calibration frame. The rejection high and low frames are only for your information. They aren't used in the actual...
Hello everyone,
I've recently purchased Pixinsight and it's quite unintuitive, so I'd like to stick with APP for stacking for the meantime.
Right...
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I don't have APP so I can't answer your question. What I would say though is I have also recently purchased Pixinsight and struggled with it. One of...
We have had some clear cold night here over the last week (OK, -8C, I can't compete with some in the coldness stakes :icon-smile: ).
Last Wednesday I...
But the default is fairly spectacular! Using the trail at the moment $89 licence, reckon at that price...
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Yep. I now use all the RC Astro tools and they have drastically reduced my processing time and improved my final results significantly. As for CUDA -...
One of the things beginners always struggle with is getting decent data with which to practice and develop their image processing skills. Those of us...
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I saw your post on AB. Absolutely beautiful process David!
Beautiful data too !
I recently learned a new technique for inserting RGB stars into narrowband images (thanks to starfield ). For some reason the large and bright stars...
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Hi Steve, @STEVE333
I kept this thread bookmarked just in case!
The target that I was imaging when I responded above was the Ghost of Cassiopeia...
The AP processing Challenge has been in a bit of a hiatus over the summer. Partly as others things got in the way for me and partly because the last...
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