UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hey guys i'm hoping you can confirm that my flats, dark flats, and darks are working as they should be in APP.
I'm having some troubles with uneven red colors around the image and black/red borders in the integrated stack. if you set the saturation threshold to 0 and crank the saturation up to 30 or more it is very evident. it doesn't look like i'm the only one having these issues with this camera from what i see on the forums. Though i can't seem to find a definitive reason or fix for these issues. the reasons for these odd patches of color and dark edges range from diferrential cooling along the sensor to flats not being created properly. i definitely seem to see less of an issue at a temperature setting of -10 vs -15 or -20.
with regards to flats, i use an ipad with white screen set to an appropriate brightness to acheive at least a 3 sec image with an ADU set around 30000 to 35000. I have even tried ADU of 25000, but that created the same flat file. I will try a different light source next to see if that helps. i looked for light leaks and haven't found any. i've even created my flats and dark flats at night and use my telescope cover to cover the assembly to ward off any light. From my inexperienced eye it looks like the fats aren't being applied or are being applied to aggressively?? i don't know how to tell.
for this camera people recommend the following which i have been doing:
- set offset and gain values to the defaults which are offset 30 and gain 120.
- calibrate the lights with darks, flats, dark flats(use NINA Flat Wizard)
- for darks i match the same temperature setting, offset, and gain as lights
- for flats and dark flats see above.
i have uploaded the following files:
- m45-RGB-session-1.fits integrated lights stack calibrated by the darks, dark flats, and flats
- master dark, master dark flat, master flat fit files for the integrated stack above
- m45_lights_only-RGB-session_1.fits, this is just the lights integrated stack without calibration frames applied
- individual subs for the calibration frames and lights.Â
heres a link to the files:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Jb1VcpIJ25j1qDQ44rMRIHJzg7sug6tW?usp=sharing
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thanks for looking and i look forward to your suggestions and insight.
