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Hello All, I had another go at this using alot of your suggestions. I have verified that my focus is pretty good using both the bahtinov and the FWHM tools, I played with the max star width (min 2 to max 32) and the black point quite a bit. I was able to make some progress but nothing, other than go...

Thanks for the link. There was quite a bit I was not aware of...I should do much better next time

Hi Robin,
Thanks for the quick response. Interesting about the focus because I was using a b-mask but I did switch back and forth with the focal reducer so I probably didn't refocus well between switches.
Thanks

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Hello, I had a pretty unproductive night trying to stack with my ASI178MM on my Evolution 8 at f10 and also at f6.3. I have attached some screenshots and I am hoping there is something obvious that I am doing wrong. This has always worked quite well in the past but I kept getting "not enough st...

Hey Dave, I just restacked the problematic ser file with AS3 and I don't see the grid. Very odd. I will try to capture a few more this week. I don't want to waste your time unless it is really reproducible. I am definitely starting to learn PIPP...it really does quite a bit.
Thanks,
Dave

Hey Dave, I finally had another chance to try Jupiter. Captured RAW8 as a ser and avi. Both had the grid pattern. AS3 recognizes the proper debayer pattern but the resulting png had the grid. I loaded the ser into PIPP with a few options (debayer, crop, frame stabilization/planetary). The resulting ...

Thanks Dave, I will stick to SER from now on and I will take the time to learn PIPP. Interesting that PIPP read two different debayer patterns for you. Maybe that is just an example of why AVI isn't so good. I also downloaded you debayer guide. Quite helpful. People like you really contribute so muc...

Hey Dave, Thanks for spending so much time on this. Regarding AVI vs SER: I believe SC selects AVI by default for RAW8 and SER for most other color schemes. I assumed it was smarter than I am so I accepted those settings. I will definitely try to force it to SER and see what happens. Regarding the d...

Hey Dave, Yes I am sure it is debayering-related somehow but I have just spent the last couple of nights running every different combination of settings with resolution, color space, SC debayer preview on/off, drizzle on/off and there is absolutely no commonality as to when it happens or not. In fac...