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Integrated image produces a swirl

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Brown Dwarf
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Hi, I am stacking 92 light frames (OIII), 25 flats, 30 darks, 25 dark flats. The resultant integrated image produces a swirl as shown. Stars are rough and nebulosity is completely gone. Similar integration with Ha and SII frames was fine. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

elephants trunk nebula OIII Oxygen III 1 St

 



   
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(@Anonymous 174)
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That's an effect I've not really seen before. Can you tell me more about your setup and if there was any difference with shooting in Ha and SII? Are you dithering during data acquisition?



   
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Brown Dwarf
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Hi, no difference in setup, data acquired using all three filters during same sessions over a period of a few weeks, same PHD2 small dither, etc. Deep Sky Stacker handles the exact same image and callibration set without issues  (basic stretch applied):

 

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(@Anonymous 174)
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Ok, would you be able to upload a subset of all data (incl. calibration data) to our server for analysis?



   
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Brown Dwarf
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Hi, data uploaded. Thanks

 

This is what I see post integration using the same:

 

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(@Anonymous 174)
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Thank you, I'll have a better look



   
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(@Anonymous 174)
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I noticed that the flats you provided have almost no signal, if you disable stretching it should have a nice signal at approx. 2/3 of the spectrum. Is that a mistake while uploading or actually the case? So I processed without flats or dark-flats. DSS has far simpler algorithms and that may have "helped" in this case, but they still wouldn't be correct flats.

This is the result I then get:

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Little bit of post processing:

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Thanks for going to the effort to check, I will review my calibration frames and run again, and let you know.

 



   
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