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 must have a setting wrong somewhere. I shot lights, flats, darks, and bias frame as usual on three separate occasions in the past two weeks and the final image comes out still containing the blemishes (dust motes, etc) that the flats should be removing. This most recent run instead of using just the default settings I ran each tab separately (still using the default settings so I could inspect the frames at each step. When I launch any of the frames following each of the calibration, analyze, register and normalize steps and view the calibrated frame it is free of the blemishes that the flats take out. However, even in this case having confirmed that the individual frames are calibrated the final integrated image contains the blemishes. I'm stumped. I thought it might be my recent switch to beta 29 but while at lunch I ran my previous version (beta 14) and the same result occurred. I've used this camera/scope combination for more than three years and have never had this trouble.
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Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Figured it out (FINALLY). Had a light leak affecting my darks and bias frames. I reshot calibration darks and bias frames after plugging the light leak and cleared up the calibration just fine. I was too focused on thinking the problem was in the flats.
Hi @dcaponeii,
Great, I am happy to read that you were able to solve this. Light leaks are very nasty and will create issues like this for sure. They can be so subtle that you would not notice it in a single calibrated light frame, but then all of a sudden, the issue shows in the integrated result like in your case.
Mabula
@mabula-admin I've started to look at my dark frames as soon as I've captured a few of them. Load them into APP and stretch them to make sure there's not a new leak. That step has allowed me to discover a new leak already. It's my Meade microfocuser. Light seems to be able to leak around the roller bearings somehow. Black electrical tape tightly surrounding the edges of the rollers seem to have licked the problem (for now),
