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Originally Posted by jase
Do you mean under the process | stretch menu (as shown in the first image below)? I'd need to do some tests to validate the results - blinking various images.
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Yes Jase. I think you have answered my question. I do the above simply to calibrate my data with darks, flats, OSC RGB convert and then move on to ps2 to process it using levels and curves. So any white point clipping hopefully is not a result of my calibration in maxim but of my processing in ps2.
For my eta image after calibration, stacking, stretch to max pixel and save as tiff in Maxim, i load the image in ps2 and get the first histogram. The stuff to the left is noise as over an hour exposure the field moves a bit. So initially I crop the edges slightly to get the second histogram as my starting point, a very dim image; and then use levels and curves from there on in. For my Eta image i guess i used curves/levels iteration too much and clipped the white point as you point out.
So I am hoping that my initial processing calibration, stack, stretch and save as tiff in Maxim is not wrong. As for my processing skills in ps2, well
, more data helps enormously!
Paul