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Do not use long exposure compensation - separate master dark is better from SNR point of view.
And do not use jpg for stacking - lot of information is lost with conversion, especially where you do not want - at the low intensity level..
The difference in number of stars comes from the fact RAW is 16-bit, and jpg is-8-bit deep.
I am usually taking 16 or 32 frames for stacking.
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