Help needed master files

Could it be you're using a different gain now from back then maybe? Also, these are different camera's, so you can't directly compare those if the sensor is different.

Hi vincent

I am going to repeat tests but i am sure its the same gain and offset same make both 1600mm pro i am going to re-run the dark frames the old ones to make a new master if i can find them. Are those levels kind of normal then all the way up to white. I noticed this because it got some very strange final images see below its seem related to the dark and dark/flat files.

This is Lum crop using those files if you look close load of black dashes in the image please ignore levels very basic to show the problem.

mike

They shouldn't reach the entire capacity no, not by a long shot. Can you show them opened in APP so I can better judge them? Both stretched and not stretched (right hand panel, set the stretch to "no stretch"). Would be interesting to see the histogram in there as well. Might also indicate there is the tiniest bit of light leaking in or something like that. The masterdark (the last one in the first post) also shows horizontal lines which I wouldn't think are normal.

Hi vincent

Strange stretched and not stretched made no difference to the image or histogram but here is two images marked good and bad on the bad one you can see peaks on the right. Gains a little different 67 vs 100 but don't think it would have that much effect on this 

Mike

Selecting the "no stretch" option should change the histogram. Did you deselect it like in the screenshot here; I do think your masters look pretty normal.

Vincent

Yes that the box I unchecked it made no difference to the image or histogram i even selected the file again to make sure. So you think the small peaks on the bad i age picture to the right of the main histogram signal are normal 

Mike

Hi vincent

the pop up text when i hover over the button states this only effects the saved image so would it effet the live preview and histogram

Mike

Yes, that is a UI thing we may need to improve. The top button is just to say that you want to save the stretched image or save the image, not stretched. You should select "no stretch" from the pulldown menu a bit lower, like you can see in my screenshot. 😉 But I do think it can be correct yes, just a feature of the sensor-respons. When it works fine on your data, that should also cause no issue.

Hi vincent

Ok i see that now was looking for button, Here scree

n shot of the bad one the godd one just show black image and no histogram. So if these look ok why do i have all those black dashes on my final stack image attached.

Mike

I'm not really seeing black dashes, or do you mean the diagonal stripes if I zoom in? Not sure about that, but it might be a bit of walking noise perhaps...do you use dithering while shooting?

Hi vincent

No dithering at the moment i am using two camera at the same time 14 inch and 80mm i use APT so it can handle dithering of multi cameras and is in fact setup but turn off in the options. Guess i am going to have to wait for clear skys to repeat some tests.

Thanks for the help

mike

No problem, my guess is that dithering will solve this. 😉