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.
Is anybody else having trouble using data from iTelescope?
When I do a simple stack, I'm finding that the 'calibrated' data is highly overcorrected by their flats. Dust motes, huge black band on one edge and such.
When I downloaded the raw data & cal masters, they seem to be a mess as well. Some are flipped up/down and some aren't. After I sorted that out... I did full calibration and then stacked, the results were worse than before.
I have no clue what to do.
Anybody else having these problems?
I don't know the state of the calibration files at this moment, but I do know they had problems with proper calibration frames in the past. You can email them and ask for an explanation and usually they refund that session. That at least was my experience a year or so ago. This is something that should become way better with the incorporation of APP over there, but will still depend on how they take the calibration frames.
When viewing the masters, they seem "OK" (not great, because that black band I mentioned is not the same in the flats, as in my raw data.) At least the dust motes are there, and when I re-do the orientation, they're in the correct place. It's just overdone in the final output.
Is there a way to control how much the flats are correcting?
Not really, if the flats are taken as they should, APP will use them correctly. If it over-corrects, I think it would mean that the light fall-off in the flats is more severe then they are in the lights for some reason.
