I'm getting better, but not there just yet. A few more observations, again just on my M5 data (I'll have to start trying other data too):
I'm getting a few anomalies in auto star masks - little black dots. Well, black if autogenerated in say, Sharpen, but green if you just manually go into mask for an auto-stars-do. I pixel zoomed and there is nothing there, so not sure what's triggering it. I restored and tried without Correlation in Wipe, but same result so that's not it. Not a huge deal.
I like the correlation filter - would love to know more about how to objectively/subjectively select the level. It does change how you AutoDev. Some likely due to the ignore fine detail level, but seems beyond that too. So you have to alter your ROI a bit from one used without the correlation filter.
I still get no effect at all for the "dark side" in Sharpen.
In synthetic deconv, the mask doesn't seem to do anything. I tried with the star mask (really apod mask), full mask, and no mask.
Blue box selections are not saved along with the mask/apod mask. Which I kind of expected. So, sampling from scratch every time.
Deconv in 1.8 seems to need more retained resolution than in 1.7. My usual crop and 71% bin on this data leaves me at about 2300 x 1500, roughly, and the little stars (pretty much all a glob is) mostly just end up heavily squared. I will try again without the bin (I wanted that SNR lol) and see how it goes.
My new method of gray hole repair is this - select just the gray hole (similar brightness works well) pixels, and go in to Layer. Change the mode to Add. This should saturate out the gray hole back to white. If that is then too harsh, hit grow mask once or twice and go back into Layer, and click up the kernel radius for a blur. Really even once click (1.1) should do the trick. Of course right now I am just seeing the one gray hole on the one big star in my image. Lots of them could be a bit more laborious.
