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.
Hello, I have 109 images made with OSC QHY268C and have 25 matching dark frames. If I stack the images using the darks, I get a super-green image. If I stack the same image set without the darks, the stack comes out normal. Any idea what is causing this?
Thanks,
Geert
@geertvdbulcke Hi Geert. When you write "matching darks" I suppose you mean of the same temperature, gain, offset and exposure time as the lights? To my best of knowledge OSC integrations are supposed to be green due to the double number of green pixels wrt to red and blue in the sensor. If you normalize the background of the green integration, does it look normal again?
Hi Wouter,
Yes, darks taken with same exposure/gain/offset/temperature. I can't work with the stacked image when I used these darkframes. Only brighter stars are seen in vivid green. Â
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@geertvdbulcke Would you mind uploading a few of your lights and darks to
https://upload.astropixelprocessor.com/
using upload for both username and password? Create a directory called geertvdbulcke_green and put the files in there. Then I will have a look and see if I can discover what's going on.
@wvreeven I cannot enter the site, it says password is not correct but it is my username and pw for APP site.
Disregard, upload in progress 😉
FITS header does not have the info that it is an OSC file, so you have to force cfa in APP
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@geertvdbulcke Thanks. I downloaded 3 lights and 3 darks. When I open a light in APP, I can see the histogram as expected for an OSC camera. The green, blue and red peaks are nicely separated:
However, this is not the case for the darks:
I see the darks were shot on August 11, 2021 and the lights on September 2, 2021 but the software version and all other settings are the same. I am afraid that this is a MaxIm DL issue. Could you perhaps try to take a new dark and see if the color channels are separated like for the lights?
Thanks Wouter, this is strange indeed, I'll take a set of new darks. Actually as the camera has no shutter, I just take the images with the telescope cover on, same result in the end. I checked my other darks sets of 60s and 120s, all have the same problem. Strange enough, when I open such dark in MaximDL and do a convert color, I seem to get a color image. Â
@geertvdbulcke The screenshot of the dark that I posted shows that APP treats them as color images as well. See the histogram to the right. You can see that it is not grey but has colored parts. I thought it strange that the darks don't have such a separation of the channels as the lights. However, I just opened a dark taken with our ASI2600MC and it shows a similar histogram:
So I am not sure anymore what the issue is then.
I'm also taking a look, doesn't seem like the darks are very problematic actually. The data you provided I also stacked and I'm not seeing a huge issue, apart from some need for flats.
So I'm wondering if there is data in the set that is maybe causing an issue? Maybe even the flats?
