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.
So this is Alintak in Orion's Belt. Quite pronounced colour halo's around the bigger stars. Any idea what is causing this? I did have a LP filter in the imaging train. Is there some integration setting in APP to eliminate this? Thanks for any help.
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Alnitak is a very bright and slightly blueish star. It looks to me as if the blue subs (or the blue channel in case of an OSC) are overexposed. If you want a more detailed answer then we would need to know exactly what telescope, camera and filters you used and which exposure time.
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Clear skies, Wouter
Thanks. Equipment used was H-A modified Nikon D5500. Scope AT65 edq. 300 second light subs. There was an IDAS-D1 LP filter on the D5500.Â
I personally don’t have any experience with your equipment but I am pretty sure that 300 sec is much too long for such a bright star. As far as I know it is not possible to correct for that while processing the images. Not with APP nor any other software. But perhaps someone else on this forum knows a way to do it.
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Clear skies, Wouter
Wouter is correct, it's simply in the data as it's over-exposed. That data you can't really fix, maybe a little bit by playing around with gradients tools, but that still won't be as nice as trying to get the data itself better. An HDR tool would then be really useful, unfortunately that's not in APP yet, but it is on the to-do list.
