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28 October 2024 at 11:50 pm
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Alex Pratt
Participant
Hi James,
I ran your darks, flats and lights through DSS, selected comet and stars tracking (star freeze effect) and got the attached image. It’s a pleasing view but it didn’t track the comet’s coma as well as I hoped. I’ll try it again.
You had 6 darks and 3 flats. As Nick advised, you need double figures of those to create good master darks and flats. DSS does a lot of the work for you but if you have only a few darks and flats, and if the masters are not good quality, they can produce a final image which can be worse than simply stacking all the lights.
Cheers,
Alex.