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Ok fine, thank you.

So adjusting the colour balance is done using the sliders whilst live stacking? I generally click on the auto colour balance to adjust the sliders.

I gave it a try without the darks and interestingly it made things slightly worse but I think I found out how to manage it. Dialling down the brightness/offset from the default of 8 down to 5 seemed to help an managed to get a couple of good shots - see attached with no post-processing and came out ...

Thanks again Robin. I will give that a try.

I have been capturing flats with bias frames as is suggested but as you will see with the stacked image of the bubble nebula there is still vignetting with colour. I capture 30 frames for flats and separately I do 60 frames for darks. I now use an LED light pad and use a couple of sheets of A3 to di...

That's fantastic, thank you.

Thanks Robin. I am going to wait (not much choice with all the cloud going over the UK atm) until my LED light panel arrives as I don't think using the floodlight method is helping. However I do think I need to try things out a bit more with flats and get different results and see which one works be...

I do flats each time I do imaging but each time I see what almost looks like flats over compensate. I make sure the white channel gets to around 50% brightness and typically go for 15 frames. I also make sure that none of the channels go above 90% brightness. One thing to point out which could be th...

Thanks Robin for the explanation. In amongst the information that I provided I had a read through of the banding suppression and followed the steps and I think I have found the levels at which it needs to be set at. Will see what happens when clear skies return.

Thanks.

In order for the noise to not appear it would appear that testing further I have to deselect what is selected for the subtract dark and then I turn off the cooler for the camera and then deselect the camera from the cameras menu. I then reselect the camera and then turn on the cooler and wait to get...