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I used to be able to get color images instantly in Pixinsight just by opening a raw file- no debayering needed (up until today) Post, on the internet, an example light frame 'with no debayering needed', together with the Sharpcap capture file and a brief description of the software used/method to p...

Are flats being used? If so, there would be an impact?

Dave

You need to debayer the file first. In PixInsight Process > ColorSpaces > Debayer Once the image is in colour then Process > IdentityTransformations > CurvesTransformation (to taste) Dave Sun-debayer.JPG These are the additional entries added to the FITS header by PixInsight. On my system the conver...

Another link to eclipse imaging with useful background info, including exposure and ISO settings for various stages, at Roger Clark's site: https://clarkvision.com/articles/photograph-the-sun/ Roger's plan on eclipse day is to use 5 DSLR cameras on trackers. Note the use of bracket sequences. Dave

Jakub I achieved these lunar mosaics with a Sweex webcam https://forums.sharpcap.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=736&hilit=sweex . I took out the front lens, added webcam adapter (eBay) and an IR filter. The 10-panel mosaic came out well given the cost of the hardware. I also adapted a Microsoft Lifecam (...

Brian Thanks for the comments. I agree with you that Bortle 6 brings its limits for longer exposures. I will try for a larger integration time with 120s exposures. The AVX mount I have now will cope better than the CG5 did. It might be too late in the year now as Orion heads towards the Manchester s...

M42/NGC1977 - multiple exposure data captured December 2019 and re-processed using PixInsight's High Dynamic Range (HDRComposition) and High Dynamic Range Compression (HDRMT) processes. M42_HDR_50x10s_30x30s_30x60s_15x120s.PNG Hardware: Celestron CG5 Advanced GT mount, Altair 66ED refractor, 0.8x re...

Menno

Good image of a difficult target + an interesting write-up.

Dave

Looking again at post #42. PixInsight 1.8.9-2 build 1601 released 1st March 2024 has a new process called GradientCorrection . A one-click action provided the following improvement to a heavily light pollution affected wide field image of Orion. Note the gradient removal and the improved histogram s...

Terry looks like these days you can only download about forty frames I split a SER file into 501 FITS files using PIPP, then loaded and combined the 501 individual files into a SER file using PIPP x64 ver 2.5.9. I have never come across a 40 limit - maybe PIPP 32-bit? Capture.JPG There is no need fo...