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.
I am trying to process images in APP and can't get it to work with my SCT. I have used APP in the past with my refractor images and everything seems to go smoothly. For the last few nights, I have been taking photos with a 9.25 Celestron SCT and I keep getting very fuzzy stacked output. The individual frames look OK, but when I stack them I get a very fuzzy looking image. I'm sure I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what it is. I've tried shortening exposure times and playing around with APP settings, but I still have the same problem. The guiding seems decent. I've run out of ideas. Can you help me? I've attached an individual sub and a typical stacked result. Thank you!
Whoa! That is very strange. If single images are ok, try stacking without calibration. First I do normalize, then throw out any image that is below .8 on image quality or star quality - You may have some really bad images that are getting into the stack. Then integrate. If it's all good then your calibration needs to be looked into.
Thank you for your suggestion- I never would have thought of that one. It didn't seem to make much difference, but I tried using smaller numbers of raw images. The blurry stack I posted is 290 frames. If I just stack 15 or so, the result is still blurry, but not as bad. As I add more data, it keeps getting worse. Does that suggest anything?Â
For what it's worth, I think I got the issue sorted out. I uninstalled APP and re-installed it with all the default settings. That seemed to work, although I don't know exactly why. It's strange that the older settings and version worked OK with other data sets, but not the recent SCT info. I hope this continues to work.
Hi Michael,
That single sub looks good to me so I would not expect that result for the final image with the default settings. Can you show some screenshots of the settings in each of the steps? Or I believe you can somehow set the settings to default and maybe stack again to see if you get the same result. Â
Tom
Hi Michael,
I see you got it figured out. Your post must have gone up while I was writing mine.Â
Tom
Thanks Tom-Â you nailed it!
