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Originally Posted by Benjamin
Colour saturated or too stretched? It's hard to know when enough is enough :-) . Attached is a more toned down version and I stuck to more regular kind of histogram with the bulk of its hump jammed against the left hand side (not so familiar with the techinal terms). The image was taken through an ED80 with a modded 40D (6x 5 minute subs at ISO800 with a CLS-CCD filter on a moonless suburban night).
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Looks a bit better
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Originally Posted by Benjamin
The first question I had in regards to importing the image into StarTools was which categeory of image it is (according to Startools initial prompt - linear, bayered etc.)? I stack my images in Nebuloisty, removing darks and flats, normalizing intensities, debayering and aligning. I have no idea what this means in regards to white balance although I assume the fit file I'm importing, with the Nebulosity processes applied, is no longer bayered? From memory I think I guessed the first option for this picture.
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Sounds like linear is the right choice. Linear means that it hasn't been stretched yet.