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This is the Cat's Paw Nebula in SHO. I quite like some of the custom sho mixes that StarTools offers. This one in particular gave great colour contrast - I feel. There is approximately 5.5 hours exposure here on a 20 inch planewave scope with a FLI-PL09000 camera imaged from Australia. Thanks for lo...

Hi Ivo,

I've been using the version 563 now upgraded to 565. I'll let you know when I next try the synth module in my flow. I installed swapspace as advised and it make the world of difference!

Richard

Thanks Dietmar!

Wow. It's like I have a new computer. I tested it by processing some data at full resolution on a 15 year old laptop. Never crashed. Thanks

Richard

Thanks Ivo,

I am using Ubuntu LXDE and Mint Cinnamon on Linux. So this does not happen with you? For me every time. Never with version 8.

Thanks again.

Richard

I have a few observations to report: 1. In version 8 and 9 (maybe 7 too), in the sharpening module, the "before" is grayed out when using the default 300%. 299 or 301 enables it. 2. In version 9, clicking on the star synth modules causes the programme to crash 3. If using on a slow, old computer, in...

Hi all, I'm giving a startools workshop at my local astronomy club (RASC in Winnipeg Canada) and have a few questions. 1. What is the difference between "shadow linearity" and "detector gamma"? I find the stretches of autodev to be very conservative and low contrast - especialy in the later versions...

Thanks for your work Dietmar - and yes, I will re-shoot next year as the target is now not visible. However, i will contact Mladen, the support person for ITelescope and see what can be done by updating flats or other calibration files. I don't know how they do this but hopefully they can with a mis...

Thanks for this! ill need a bit of time to digest what you've written. Meanwhile I could at least re shoot the red and blue frames and then crop the image even more aggressively.

Generally this system produces good colours with other targets.

Thanks Richard

Thanks for all your hard work Mike - really amazing. A few questions: After checking Stellarium though, I question those blue stars, since their B-V values make them rather Sun-like, and thus perhaps ought to be white. Stellarium provides you with such information? I never knew (how?) There's also a...

Sorry its taken me awhile to fix this - the correct link to the stacks is here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1xdcEMY4UEl8nx0a4mYcsOepei3toe2/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsjmerS7SAcKWLQAVPnFy-jrqRpmftkF/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JKVzxJVK3F58sRaeSO_j...