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Re: Where's Planet X in the New Images?


I M Openmind wrote:
> Jan wrote:
>
>> Please note that using the stacking process on images not calibrated with
>> the dark images will get a lot of noise on the stacked image, as neither
>> AIP4Win nor Maxim DL seems to be able to remove this satisfactory during the
>> stacking process. For anyone wanting to use the demo version of Maxim DL for
>> trying out this themselves, I guess we can make the individual images with
>> darks subtracted available on the web or mail them directly.

> no problem with MaxIm ... before the combine, do
> Process|Set calibaration (point to your master dark and master flat
> ... whoops no flats from Steve) and then Process|Calibrate All to
> apply master darks and flats to all the loaded images.  Then do the
> stacking.

Yepp, using the Process | Combine instead of File | Combine Files. This
makes it even simpler for people to verify that indeed even when excluding
shavas-15R.fts, the spot identified by ZetaTalk as Planet X is fully visible
using Sum or Average.

Regards,
Jan