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Most everyone suggests shooting 3set of images: surface, prominence and flats… but I’ve yet to find a video or instructions on how to stack them before doing any of the post processing. Am I missing something?
That is certainly one way to do it and I have went that route before. But I find with full disk images that flats are unnecessary unless your sensor is REALLY dirty. Flats are almost completely necessary if you are shooting with a tiny sensor and must do mosaics to create a full disk. There is a trick to using only one shot for both the prominences and the surface that involves using ImPPG on the finished Autostackkert file, but it is difficult to explain how in a text reply. I'll have to eventually make a second video.
You don’t show me how to stack surface, prominice and flats… nobody does, but you all say they are necessary elements for a quality image. Am I missing something???
Sorry that I didn't cover every aspect of producing a finished solar image. This was just an introduction to AutoStakkert. Shooting flats is something I rarely ever do and really do not find necessary unless you are shooting very long focal length and being forced to combine multiple images in a mosaic. But producing a final image that shows both a properly exposed surface and prominences is something I do all the time, maybe my next tutorial will cover that part of the processing.
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Most everyone suggests shooting 3set of images: surface, prominence and flats… but I’ve yet to find a video or instructions on how to stack them before doing any of the post processing. Am I missing something?
That is certainly one way to do it and I have went that route before.
But I find with full disk images that flats are unnecessary unless your sensor is REALLY dirty.
Flats are almost completely necessary if you are shooting with a tiny sensor and must do mosaics to create a full disk.
There is a trick to using only one shot for both the prominences and the surface that involves using ImPPG on the finished Autostackkert file, but it is difficult to explain how in a text reply. I'll have to eventually make a second video.
You don’t show me how to stack surface, prominice and flats… nobody does, but you all say they are necessary elements for a quality image.
Am I missing something???
Sorry that I didn't cover every aspect of producing a finished solar image. This was just an introduction to AutoStakkert. Shooting flats is something I rarely ever do and really do not find necessary unless you are shooting very long focal length and being forced to combine multiple images in a mosaic. But producing a final image that shows both a properly exposed surface and prominences is something I do all the time, maybe my next tutorial will cover that part of the processing.
Many thanks…some of us are just trying to find our way into the Light!
Guess like all things related to this hobby, we try and try again 😊