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Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:46 pm
by sandconp
Does Sharpcap Pro support Sigma Clipping and if so, where is this set and the values?

I have an image that has a satellite streak through it and I would like to prevent this from happening in the future.

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:19 pm
by admin
Hi,

Yes, sigma clipped stacking is supported – see the documentation here https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/3.2/#Stacking%20Tab

Cheers, Robin

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:20 pm
by sandconp
Any suggestions for settings?

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:55 am
by RickBG
What is your suggestion on how to set the "Sigma Low Limit (%)?

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:05 pm
by admin
Hi,

leave it at default unless you are getting a very high number of pixels rejected by the sigma clipping algorithm with no obvious cause. That control is primarily intended deal with potential problems with cameras that have very low noise levels – it would be possible for the initial sigma determination stage to calculate a very low expected noise level and then start rejecting pixels on a massive scale if the image value change slightly. The sigma low limit control puts a lower bound on the calculated sigma values for pixels to avoid this happening.

Cheers, Robin

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:55 pm
by donstim
I've been unable to prevent satellite streaks during live stacking. Last night I got several streaks before sigma clipping had a chance to build its calibration. So, I cleared the stack then got a streak after the 10 frames had been acquired. Essentially no pixels rejected (maybe 0.0001%).

ZWO ASI 294MC Pro camera, gain 121, exposure 15 seconds on an 8-inch SCT with f/6.3 reducer corrector.

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:41 pm
by admin
Hi,

Did you capture the raw frames by any chance? If you did we could replay in the folder monitor camera and see if adjusting the settings would have helped or if we need to go further and make changes to the code.

Thanks, Robin

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:18 am
by donstim
No, sorry I did not. Next time!

Don

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:12 pm
by poolemarkw
Just to clarify, does the Sigma Clipping function remove an entire frame when it sees the abnormal pixels, or include the frame but ignore those abnormal pixels?

Thanks,

Mark

Re: Sigma Clipping setting during Live Stacking

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:45 pm
by admin
Hi,

it only excludes the pixels that have a abnormal values – so inferior for satellite streak is in one of the images then the right pixels from the satellite should get added to the stack, but all the rest of the data in the image should.

Thanks, Robin