Man… I just want to try EVERYTHING! Ha, well, they do say you cant have everything...but no harm in trying, go for it! And thanks for that Moon mo...

Wow, thanks for all the advice and tips, Rupert, quite a bit to soak in but soak it in I will. I want to achieve the best I can in imaging the cosmic...

Yes and great timing, it the way ya type em, Andy

Thats my favourite too, Andy but the rest are terrible! Your ones are much better because, they're both clever and terrible and delivered with panach...

Mike you are our hero. Whenever I go to dark skies in future, I am not going to waste those precious dark skies on flipping dark frames. Man, if I k...

Phew this sure was a brainbuster. I discovered a setting in the RAW/FITS DDP setting, a checkbox called Auto white balance. it wasnt checked. Now l...

So just to remind you, I get histograms such as this when stacking with no calibration frames, heavily weighted to the right: But with calibration ...

Its all 16 bit Tif file output, Mike. And I am stacking without either dark or bias frames...the whole point of the experiment! Remember, I am compa...

I've tried toggling all sorts of settings now and I get the same fundamental issue of fragmentation. And with so many different stacking otpions chan...

....and Stacking parameters are set to "standard" mode (in Result tab)

Perhaps I'll change to Auto-adaptive weighted Average combination method?

Complex? I stay well away from anything to do with complex ;)...I go with the recommendations as per this DSS settings screen which I used for both ty...

Right, Sumitra, Mike and anyone interested in Mike's controversial theory, I have done a preliminary comparison test of stacking my Andromeda frames w...

The Astrophotography for Beginners course definitely sounds like a really great course! Thanks for the detailed reply, Tej – much appreciated. I’m REA...

Oh no, Brian are you OK? Well no of course you're not but hope you heal up quickly, man. I'm sorry for your mishap :(     Andy, at this ...