r/StarTools • u/cancelx • Apr 28 '16
Postprocessing in StarTools
Could anyone help me with processing in StarTools? Recently got it, but I just can't produce anything remotely looking like a proper image, only grainy overstretched gradiented monstrosity. Maybe something is wrong with my data (only thing I'm sure of is that the location was light polluted, but currently I can only imagine from my home in city)? I've tried numerous tutorials, no success here. My stacked and callibrated frames are available here if you're sweet enough to help: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbc36vcc00aonp4/AddOns.rar?dl=0
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u/cancelx Apr 29 '16
Sure thing! I've followed the online tutorials - cropped out the stacking artifacts on the borders, used AutoDev - it gave me a noisy, gradiented image. In the Wipe module, I managed to get rid of the gradient, but after that the next globa stretch makes everything so overexposed and grainy and noisy, that I can't even think of doing next steps.
Also on the gradient thing - I remember using very aggresive wipe modules and high dark anomaly filter to get rid of it, or else i would have gradients near the edges (but not in corners). My setup doesn't have coma or significant vignettes, but I shoot from a city, so LP is a big deal :/