how to process images from FLI microline 8300 OSC camera

[h0ughy]

i have been trying to stack the images i captured from astrofest with the FLI8300 OSC camera and for the life of me i cant get colour images. i looked at the poster reference for the colour cameras http://www.flicamera.com/ccdposter.pdf and matched that with the one in DSS (ok have forgotten how to process anything in PI - been that long ):question:

yes and i do feel like a right royal git for not knowing this:shrug:

[multiweb]

Did you debayer?

[h0ughy]

ok now the dumb question - is that the capture or the processing, capturing the camera was picked up by FLIgrab - never changed any other settings.

on DSS i selected the colour grid that matched the one in the PDF file?:question:

[gregbradley]

I used to use Images Plus for processing one shot colour images.Its built form the ground up to do that. CCDstack will do it as well and I think it has been improved a lot for one shot colour cameras but in the past it did not seem particularly friendly to one shot colour.

Its been a while but Images Plus does a lot of these steps automatically once setup with which camera. I'd check if they support the FLI 8000C.

Debayering means to separate the colour data into the red green and blue separate data to enable individual processing of each colour should you want.

I think really though all you want is to do darks, flats and biases then stack. Perhaps some noise reduction with data rejection of hot and cold pixels to clean it up a bit more. I would use CCDstack for data rejection but that could be a later refinement once you are stacking colour images and getting a good image.

Greg.

[LewisM]

I can confirm CCDStack is SUPERBLY OSC compatible now. In fact, VERY easy - just have to remember to debayer the images BEFORE registration etc. Thankfully, unlike DSS, most of CCDStack is a manual operation (but you can script it) so YOU control what goes on and when.

I found PixInsight did an OK job at OSC stacking and integration, but CCDStack was so much easier.

[RB]

Dave, I have a spare cooled 40D if you wanna buy one?

:P

[h0ughy]

i reject your reality and insert my own:P

[RB]

and what would you use to do that, DSS, ImagesPlus, FLIgrab, CCDStack or PixInsight?

:lol:

[h0ughy]

ok some success - i played with the settings for DSS - turned off the align RGB. cant complain too much as the stars have no colour but the neb does

did this really quickly to show i fixed the colour issue - now just have to work on the poor processing

[h0ughy]

DSS to stack - PI to process badly and PS to shrink so you dont see the bad stuff:P

[multiweb]

Looks ok. The colors are spot on now. :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

well the same process didnt work on my comet shots from astrofest - very homebrand ;):question:

now i know the comet was green - stuffed if i know where that went:mad2::sadeyes: