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Thanks for looking at this Robin,
Do you mean these settings? Creating mono flat and not using bias frame. Histogram looks OK.
I wonder if too if this is an issue of the odd pixels combined with the fact its a colour sensor?

Thanks for the explanation regards the 11 captures...sorry for the red herring
Have you managed to deduct what is happening with my flats in Sharpcap?
Thanks again for your help

Did a few more investigations on this last night. To begin with, I tried using Astro Live, and performed a flat capture on this (10 averages), which worked fine, and after applying the flat, none of the effects shown in sharpcap occured, and the image was lovely and flat afterwards. I was also able ...

Also here is a link to the raw image that is used to create the flat....so if I understand correctly this is averaged 10 times to create the flat
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Il0gf ... WjCmEkqcVl
I dont see the diagonal band in this

Thanks Dave..I'd say yours looks very good

Thanks guys for the help
Here a link to the flat file
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hLS6d ... gHiCZcq3AA
Let me know if it doesn't work.
You can see the same thing in the file, which makes me think its part of the flat acquisition process

I seem to be having a problem getting flats to work. I'm using a Atik 414EX with sharpcap 3.2 for near time imaging using the live stack function. The first attached file is a screenshot before flat taken raw.PNG The second shows the histogram setting up the flat setupflat_1.PNG The third shows afte...

Hi Robin,
Last night was finally a clear evening, and I managed to try stacking again but this time using Sharpcap 3.2
I had no issues getting stacking work with this software version, so whatever is different between the two version certainly helped
Thank you again for your support !!!

Hi Robin,
Thank you. The next time I have a clear sky, I'll do exactly that
Best wishes,
Colin

Hello, Apologies to tag onto this thread but I believe I have a similar problem I am using an atik 414ex colour with a C5 and 0.33x reducer and wanting to live stack. last night I was using Sharpcap 3.1 and could not get any the software to recognise any alignment stars Exposure set to between 5 and...