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Greetings, Do the stretching and color balancing controls used in livestacking affect the color balance of the raw images? I have a zwo asi 294 camera and want to compare a livestacked image to an image acquired by stacking the raw frames in dss and then processing it in gimp. I would like the raw i...

Thanks for the cautions Brian. Hope to try m31 again before it gets away.

Thanks all for the replies. This will give me some things to read and research.

Is there a way to know how to set time and gain so that faintest details in an object can be captured without overexposing brightest parts of object. Thinking of andromeda galaxy and orion nebula.

Thank you for that clarification. Very helpful.

Would like to use main scope and camera for polar alignment function in sharpcap (do not have autoguiding). I read in an older post that I would need .5 degree field of view in either direction. Does this mean .5 degrees for the shorter dimension of the camera chip?

Thank you Robin, I will try that this evening.

Greetings everyone. Just recently started using sharpcap livestacking. My problem is that I cannot see the results of the stacking process on my computer screen. Sharpcap shows that the image is being stacking and no frames ignored but even if I stack hundreds of frames the image on my screen does n...