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Old 16-11-2014, 07:27 PM
ericwbenson (Eric)
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Originally Posted by Shiraz View Post
just a point - when stacking, make sure that you use either average or median - not sum.
In Maxim using sum has no negative effect since it keeps the image buffers in floating point (32bit). It will ask if you want to stretch the image before saving it into a 16 or 8 bit file format, FITS can handle 32 bit natively of course. However using sum/avg to stack images is usually a last resort course of action in any case!

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