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Dear Fabio,

sorry for the delay and many thanks for your kind advices!! I am sure I have to learn a lot more!

I think I will re-shot that sequence as soon as there will be a clear sky - can't wait to try it again!

Have a good day!
Krisztian

Dear Fabio,

thanks for your valuable suggestions! I will do as you said!

Just out of curiosity: why isn't debayering in the capture program preferred?

Best:
Krisztian

Dear Fabio,

I used FireCapture and only used BMP output format because I thought it is not compressed just as FITS but I can open and edit .bmp files with common image processors too (like Gimp or IrfanView). Seems I made a wrong decision...?

Have a beautiful day!!

Krisztian

Dear Fabio, you are extremely kind to offer that but I wouldn't like to steal your time :) If you have a minute and check the pictures, I would be very happy but only if you don't have better thing to do :) I am searching for a solution because with my hardware setup, I will not be able to shoot muc...

Dear Fabio, you are kind :) I attached 2 light frames (with the maximum offset between them), a dark frame and the screenshot of the result of the manual align (you can see the little arcs in the lower right corner due to field rotation). It's most likely my fault as I am still learning the tricks o...

Dear friends, I use a Celestron NexStar SE8 scope with an ASI120MC camera. Unfortunately due to the Alt-Az mount I am only able to shoot 10-20-30 sec pictures which occasionally have too few stars on them (for example in the vicinity of M51). I cannot use automatic stacking on those pictures (or am ...