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Originally Posted by jimmyh1555
Thanks guys for your comments. On my attempt at Eta, I did the following:
ASI 1600 mono UNcooled
10 off exposures 30s each in L, R, G, B - ie 40 exposures.
Gain was 213
I did it in SharpCap
I then loaded all those 40 .png files into DSS and it stacked them (I think) ie like just opened each file in turn and put it on the list. Then I registered them and they got stacked. I saved the resulting file as a .FTS and then loaded it into Star tools.
Then the fun started because I tried all those boxes down the left hand side like Decon, contrast, HDR, and lots of others. The image was quite dim when I started it and it didn't improve! what stars there were, ended up as white dots with halo's around them . Ghastly!  |
Hi Jimmy
Apologies if I got this wrong, but your description suggests that you stacked all of the LRGB images into a single file - which will destroy the colour information.
the LRGB files have to be aligned the same way, but then they need to be separately stacked to produce four different files representing L and the three colours (DSS can align and stack them). These four files are then combined to form a colour image - StarTools can do that
http://forum.startools.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1148) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3zTZzd9kY Cheers Ray