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I hope someone can change the SUBJECT line to Subtracting Darks from Subtracting Darls as I see a lot of people are interested in this subject and for the new comers to this avocation I hope to add to their enjoyment of this Forum and what it stands for. I almost over looked it. No, I didn't go outs...

I have spent at least 5 hours today reading all I can about hot pixels and subtracting dark frames and I'm not certain I'm ready to set up on this fantastic night and see if I can subtract black frames from my live stacks. The line from Robin "you just need to choose your saved dark file (press...

Thanks Robin. I am not disappointed but relieved to hear that you think I don't have a underperforming or Broken camera. In my pictures (at least 30) the hot pixels always show up in the same place. If they are repeated those XY coordinate places are generally repeated. As the night temperatures ris...

Camera Settings for second picture taken on April 1rst 2019 [ZWO ASI178MC] Debayer Preview=On Pan=0 Tilt=0 Output Format=PNG files (*.png) Binning=1 Capture Area=3096x2080 Colour Space=RAW16 Temperature=11.6 Hardware Binning=Off High Speed Mode=Off Turbo USB=40 Flip=None Frame Rate Limit=15 fps Gain...

Second picture of artifacts. In the Camera settings notice that I have done nothing to improve color. I have not adjusted a histogram yet. I have been happy to just capture some stars or perhaps a field of asteroids. What deep sky objects will be just coming up that will be good things to practice o...

This is the Camera Settings For the First picture: [ZWO ASI178MC] Debayer Preview=On Pan=0 Tilt=0 Output Format=PNG files (*.png) Binning=1 Capture Area=3096x2080 Colour Space=RAW16 Temperature=11.6 Hardware Binning=Off High Speed Mode=Off Turbo USB=40 Flip=None Frame Rate Limit=15 fps Gain=380 Expo...

My third try to send the first picture taken on April 1rst.. I will have to make another posting to include the "Camera Settings". Can't seem to get them all together.
Look for artifacts at :
X 1790
Y1920

X 2345
Y 945

X 1301 very faint
Y 166

X2287 very faint
Y 1411

My telescope is a Celestron SkyProdogy 130 Telescope on a computer directed mount. On this April first (no April Fools Joke here) I took two stacks (about 20 pictures each) of M-44, the Beehive Cluster. It was about a week later that I got the software to see the fits Liberator stacked picture. When...

Your shared pictures and what you wrote about them were very educational for a newcomer like me. Thanks for all the effort you have put into this. Carl

Thanks Robin for all the work and perfection you have put into Your SharpCap. You think you are confused! Here is a copy of part of an Email I sent to Paul Patterson (fellow member of the Greensboro Astronomy Club) who is giving me some help and encouragement into an interest which is So New to me. ...