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Interesting tutorial. That one's new to me Dave. Hi Azkabar, I gave your image a try as well. See what you think. I don't have my log to post yet but will shortly. To summarize, I binned it by 35% (since there's not a lot of detail in the image), did minimal stretching under auto dev, tried to satu...

Hi burly,
Thanks so much. May I ask what you did in order to achieve this great image.
Seb

Hi all, I am having trouble processing the Rosette Nebula unfortunately. The outcome of the image is very grainy and noisy. I perform auto dev first, then lens and then bin. After that, wipe with the vignetting option on and finally auto develop that image again. I'm guessing this is due to the lack...

Hi Ivo, Thanks for posting the log. I have now discovered the root of the problem. I was using a converted Fits file to process this image, with a severe loss of quality. For me, Startools won't accept tiff files so I'm wondering how you managed to process this image. Everything you have posted abov...

Hi Seb (and thank you Burly and Rowland!), Thank you for your interest in StarTools, as well as for uploading your data. Wipe is indeed similar to DBE or ABE, but with some distinctions and subtle differences in purpose and algorithms. The sort of gradient elimination that Wipe and ABE/DBE performs...

Of course should have thought about that earlier.
Here is the link for dropbox, however, it might take some time to download. I have tried to reduce the size and my screenshot button isn't working for some reason

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t0kiakzwg6npk ... 3.tif?dl=0

seb

Hello all, This is my first post of many to come at this brilliant forum! :D I have downloaded a free trial of startools as well as Pixinsight to compare the two astronomical softwares. However, there have been a few issues. I had managed to produce some wonderful images with Pixinsight's DBE functi...