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Deepskystacker Settings
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How to Get All Subframes to Stack, Regardless of Score?
I need some help, here. Does anyone know how to get all subframes regardless of their scores to stack in Deepskystacker? I have tried the "Register Above a Threshold" feature and set the threshold low enough to be lesser than the lowest-scoring subframe but it seems to arbitrarily select its own threshold. What gives?
Russ Ruggles
You bailed out....
OK DSS to the best of my knowledge, will not stack frames if the stars are not somewhat round and there are at least a min of 7 stars.
Do you know how to check the star count of each frame before you start?
Sep 3, 2013
Jeffrey P Nunnari
Hi, Russ - missed your messages, but thank you for responding. Yes, I set it for maximum star detection. There has to be a way to stack all checked subs that meet a certain, user-inputted, threshold, but I have tried that and it keeps selecting its own threshold.
I will be heading out soon to image on this last night here but the information will be particularly useful for when I return home and can take the time to work the problem out. Any thoughts or ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Sep 3, 2013
Jeffrey P Nunnari
I think I have stumbled upon a solution. I checked the "Cosmetic" settings and somehow at some point the "detect and remove hot/cold pixels" options were unchecked. I checked them and re-registered the same 40 subframes and instead of 18 frames stacking, 39 did. (Image is ngc-7293, posted.) This seems to be the answer, as other images where substantially less than all subrames stacked are now yielding the same results.
Sep 7, 2013