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Hi there, I tried looking this up and I know a lot of people have had similar issues but I couldn't find the answer to my situation. I wanted to save my raw frames as FITS in 16bit. I set the colour space to RAW16 and the capture format to FITs. In live stack, I selected "save as 16 bit stack&q...

Okay, I have version 4.0 so will not worry about the ROI box. Thanks for clarifying!

Hello,

When using the Smart Histogram to determine camera settings for a DSO, should you use the ROI box? If yes, where should I put the ROI box? I cannot see the DSO on my screen until it has been stacked, so not sure where the ROI box should go.

Thanks very much!

Okay- I have been looking at Pi tutorials and the forums, I will experiment as you suggested. It is a steep learning curve but i think worth it in the end. Thank you Christian!

But would you say processing the raw photos in pixinsight yields better results?

okay thanks very much!

Thanks Robin - is either 1) or 2) in your response better than the other? or is it personal preference?

Hello! I am learning to process images for the first time, using PixInsight. I am wondering about which frames to process after doing Live Stack on SC. 1. If I saved both raw and stacked frames from SC LiveStack, is it okay to process only the stacked frames to PixInsight? This seems more efficient ...

Okay I will definitely try running tracking without doing anything else and see if it does this again. My programs do sometimes stall when I try to do too many things at once. I just tried googling the tracking issue again (this time with eqmod as a key word). It looks like others have also experien...

Hi Robin thanks! Yes I was concerned about the star trails and was confused about what to do with the tracking. After I plate solved for my target, I clicked "track" in the SharpCap control panel and set it to sidereal rate. However, every few minutes the track function turned off and I'm ...