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Yeah star tools has been around for years as have many other programs and they all work great for those able to understand and operate them to their fullest. They are all just tools, they dont magically do anything on their own and are useless in the hands of someone how has no clue what to do or willing to learn. Ive owned star tools and pixinsight for years, astro Art, nebulosity and now astropixel processor. I have the ones I rely on most for certain types of data and images but so far none are as powerful (read complex ) as Pixinsight and thats not to say Star tools or any other package is crap, but i dont think any other package can match PI in expert hands, not thatI would recommend PI to everyone, it requires some capability, patience and a ton of learning which is not present in everyone, and if you are doing actual science its just way above everything else. If all you want is pretty pictures, fine you have lots of choice and they all seem to folow their own workflow methodology which is something you may find difficult to understand and I just happened to take to pixinsight fairly easily for my needs, not to the level of many other users and i’m no expert with it and for beginners I always recommen AstroPixelProcessor for being so idiotproof and all you have to do, if anything is click on the numbered tabs in numerical order to follow the workflow plus it doesnt reword everything into a new language or require you to capture certain type of data using certain types of equipment or require tyou to use creative license in various steps.Your data has to be extraordinarily bad to get a bad output from it. The bigg letdown with all these packages I’ve found it solar system images, they at best have redimentary ways to register solar/lunar discs and closeups likewise planets and comet stacking, so it also depends what type of imaging you’re after. Star Tools has for years been powerful but I dont see anything to hype about it today different from the hype when I bought, certainly nothing to try to pull me away from the tools I use. Of course skilled users can do better using it than i can with the programs i use. But so what? Its a hobby only to me not a competition. Maybe i think the thread belong 8 years ago, not today St artools i said is old, its well suported and matured and in the right hand a great tool, but a tool is only as good as the user and thats where the impresivenes comes from, the end users.
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