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thanks for the input. What is your opinion on focusing?

Greetings: I am considering purchasing a dual narrow band filter (optolong l-extreme) to use on emission nebulae. Am wondering if the reduction in star light through this filter will make plate solving and focusing functions in sharpcap much more difficult. Does anyone have experience with this scen...

thanks for the reply but I believe if you select png output format on the right side column under capture format and area, all of the raw files will be saved as png while livestacking. I think this may be the default setting. But from what you have just said sounds like I can set it for fits format ...

Greetings, Can the raw individual files be saved in the fits format while livestacking or are they automatically saved as png files. If they can be saved as fits files, would this affect the time it takes for livestacking to align and stack the files? I would like to save individual files as 16 bit ...

thanks for the reply. What I meant is that on the right side where you select the frame format type such as png or fits or whatever I would select png but when I hit the start button to acquire the dark frames to calibrate the livestacking, the frame format would change to fits.

Greetings, Was trying to image crescent nebula last night. When I tried to capture darks for calibration and selected png format sharpcap would change over to fits in the select window. Tried restarting it several times but it always did this however it was actually saving the files in png. I tried ...

Thank you both for the replies

Wish to know best settings in sharpcap for getting the most "raw images". Have been told white balance should be set to 50. What about brightness, should it be set to zero? Are there other settings that affect the "rawness" of the images. Would setting everyone to auto be the bes...

Thanks so much. That clears it up for me.

Thank you for the reply. So does this mean that the controls on the right such as white balance, brightness, etc should be set on auto in order to get a raw image for the individual frames?