deep sky stacker

[Willow127mm (Brad)]

Hi all was wondering if anyone can help me out I'm getting a very tall skinny and dark final image can anyone tell me the ideal settings or if it changed something accidentally. Any help appreciated thanx Brad

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Tall and skinny? More information. What sort of files are you using for stacking?

[ralph1]

In 'stacking parameters' 'results' you can chose between standard, mosaic, intersection and custom rectangle. If it's set to intersection mode then depending on the data you could get a long skinny image
For the dark images, try changing the 'luminance' after stacking. Fiddle around with the settings a bit to see if you can improve it.

[raymo]

If by final image you are referring to the image that is generated after stacking, that is not the final image, only the stacked image. You have to produce the final image by adjusting the RGB, luminance, and saturation
sliders, then save the resulting image for processing in other software.
raymo

[Tony_ (Tony)]

I used to get the tall skinny image when I first used DSS.
It was caused (in my case) by trying to stack canon raw images with the incorrect version of DSS. If you are not using version 3.4.4 then try that - it handles raw images better and supports more DSLRs.

Regards,
Tony.