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Thanks Ivo!

That makes perfect sense. The tracking in ST is brilliant!

Thank you for providing this excellent tool at such a reasonable cost. I am trying to convince a fellow APer to buy a copy.

Matt

I was just reading the following article. http://dslr-astrophotography.com/right-colors-astrophotos/ It states that color calibration should be done while the data is still linear. Most workflows I have seen posted on this forum do the color calibration toward the end of the process, after the image...

Thanks for posting this! I've been interested in using Regim for a couple of reasons. I'm a bit of a Java coder myself, and I would like to use something that is being more actively developed than DSS. That said, I gae it a try with some NGC 7331 data I collected this past weekend, and the result wa...

Thanks, Ivo, for that explanation. That helps a lot, especially about when to apply the Lens Module. I had been doing it late in the processing. I'll try again using it "up front". Would you suggest doing it after binning the image?

Matt

I've done a couple of searches of this forum for information on the Lens Module, but I haven't come up with much. I have some data that exhibits some very noticeable coma. I have tried to correct it with the Lens Module with varying degrees of success, but I always feel like I'm just guessing. Well....

I was leaning toward auto-dev based on Ivo's recommendation in the Modules documentation... "AutoDev has a lot of smarts behind it - some heavy analysis is going on of the ROI so that it can find the optimum histogram transformation curve. Develop, in comparison, is rather 'dumb' and mimics photogra...

Here's what it looks like before the wipe...just load and auto-dev And after a crop, wipe and auto-dev. There is some decent detail in there that I'd like to tease out.

So, I haven't been able to get any better results than Che's so far. I'm still trying, though. I am wondering, however, why is my background so red? It doesn't look like classic light pollution (the yellow-brown cast). I'm wondering if it is an issue in the acquisition, in the stacking or something ...

Thanks Che! That looks way better than anything I had gotten so far. I can't share what I had done, as I was trying out ST in demo mode. I just sent payment to Ivo today, so I'll be a "real" user soon! I'm curious how you determined how far to crop. Did you do an AutoDev first? It wasn't real clear ...

I captured this data of M31 a few weeks ago, and I'm really struggling with it. I recognize that it has a lot of issues: noise, coma, light pollution, etc. I'm hopeful that StarTools can still salvage it. Here are the particulars... Subs: 60 x 30" Lights, unguided 20 x 30" Darks 20 Flats Camera: Unm...