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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think PixInsight has a tracking feature as well. I believe you can go back and remove specific functions in that program as well.

I always select the apply adjustments setting rather than the embed setting, so that could be it is being read as stretched when it actually wasn't.

As a point of reference, here is what I came up with, but clearly it's a fairly noisy image especially towards the bottom of the frame.

No idea why it appears stretched. The original autosave file wouldn't open in StarTools (I think the default save is as a 32 bit TIFF), so I saved over it as a 16 bit TIFF, but did not make any changes to the image. I used a Celestron Nightscape OSC with a KAI-10100 chip. The autosave file in the dr...

My astrobin is ChrisCharlesJax. Send me a PM with your email address there and I'll get a TIFF or FITS file to you through Google Drive.

I only have the free version of drop box. If you like I can send you my email address through astrobin and get the file to you that way.

I've had some difficulty processing this image. Dark nebulae are tough to give a natural look. This image is from two hours or so worth of data with darks and stuff. Someone with a higher level of StarTools processing experience than I could have fun with this one. If anyone doesn't mind, give it a ...