#Seestar NGC 2403

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craggy crag
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About 6 hours worth, fun to process

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vernal kernel
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Nice

crystal pasture
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Nice work, I am doing this project myself atm, with a bit more integration. 🙂
Have you drizzled your data?

craggy crag
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Calibration frames

crystal pasture
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You dont need any calibration frames for the seestar as the lights are already dark calibrated

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You just stack the light files and thats it 🙂

craggy crag
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It’s the programs I can’t figure out

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Won’t let me stack without calibration

crystal pasture
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Oh... I stack in Pix, so I cant really advise on any other stacking software :/

craggy crag
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I got no idea how to stack with pix lol

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I’ve stuck with Siril for a long time

crystal pasture
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You do have pix?

craggy crag
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Yea

crystal pasture
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You just run wbpp, but disable everything other than weights and image registration.

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For the reference frame just use the master seestar .fit file

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Just remove gradients first.
Once wbpp is done, you run image integration process, and you add in the registered files and the drizzled files from the same folder

craggy crag
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So it’s not just click wait and the drizzle is already in there

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Hm

crystal pasture
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Then you just set the pixel rejection algo to winsorized sigma clipping and you press the circle to run

craggy crag
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I’ll just stick to siril for now

crystal pasture
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Its very easy once you try it yourself

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It sounds overwhelming when just reading about it

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But in reality its just a few clicks

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I just stacked 8500 frames of NGC 2403 in 3 hours, including Drizzle

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So with the optimal path, it can be fast, depending on your PC specs too ofc, but thats kinda fixed. What you can optimize is your stacking workflow

crystal pasture
craggy crag