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.
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I recently changed to APP from DSS, and acquired the above camera. First image taken of M51 looks great in detail terms, but I cannot remove the grid pattern of the Bayer matrix. Tried in DSS and BGGR seemed to work best, - a homogeneous picture without grid, but when I try to repeat in APP it doesn't work. Can you help me out with the workflow? I attach a single FIT file for appraisal, and a finished version done with DSS and Lightroom for review
thanks
Mike
Hello Mike,
This is what I get when I select RGGB and force Bayer CFA selected.
BGGR as you had chosen (with, again, force Bayer CFA selected) also gives a result without a grid pattern, but the colors are too much to the blue side...the NGC5195 part should be slightly yellow/orange and not blue. The M51 spiral companion should be slighly yellow in the centre (Population II stars) with a bit of blue (Population I stars) and magenta (HII areas) in the spiral arms. If you check "Saturation" in the panel on the right hand side, you can evaluate the color much easier, the image I uploaded looks almost monchrome, but it is not. Just see for yourself.
Just do not forget the part in bold type 😉
I have been bitten by this mistake more often than I can remember, but it is second nature now. I whish that APP would remember this in a settings file to make life a bit easier, but that is on the feature request list......
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Regards,
Anne
Hello Anne
thank you, I looked at the CFA check box, but as it talked about monochrome... I ignored it! I will give that a go, and post the result
Mike
I also have a SXVR-H9C and the Bayer pattern is quoted as RGBG in the manual.
Should I process with BGGR and the CFA box ticked? Will this give a true representation of the colour?
Peter
Hi Peter,
First of all, the force CFA box should always be ticked (unless you use a DSLR raw image or mono camera).
Just start with what is in your manual and see what it looks like. If this does not look good:
Of the four possible CFA pattern combinations, 2 will give grid patterns, so you can eliminate them when you zoom in to inspect them.
The 2 remaining give different colors. You will have to rely on common sense (what does this object looks like on images you know) to see which one is the most likely. You can also take an image of a daytime scene and then it will clearer.
Regards,
Anne
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Thanks Anne. The manual says RGBG but there is not an option for that in APP. I'll see how it goes.
Peter
Hi,
I, too, happen to forget to tick "Force CFA" from time to time. It has been mentioned before that it would be helpful, if one could save settings or profiles in APP . But it would also help, if "Force CFA" would be set as default.
Regards
StefanÂ
