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Old 20-10-2015, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Atmos View Post
This is why I am planning on doing some proper testing of the differences in having MaxIM DL calibrating the images as they're taken or having PI do it. MaxIM does it all so FAST, on the fly and without any issues.

From the little bit of testing I have done in the past, PI does better by a fraction better when running from start to finish. I am yet to test just the calibration of the two however. I found that I get a slightly (very slight) improvement with SNR with PI but I get rounder stars with MaxIM.
Despite PI being more complex (although initial processing is a doddle with BPP and there's little reason not to use it) I expect you'll find that with a bit of tweaking you'll get much better results than with Maxim. I certainly did.

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Rick.
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