Horia wrote: My AP-1100 (August 2021, no encoders) shows, most of the time, slightly worse guiding in Dec than in RA. A typical example (one 300sec frame) looks like this: There are a couple things

Robert, Linwood and Tom, Thanks for the suggestions. I have a lot to learn about processing. I agree with PixInsight developers that do not encourage artistic modifications. I need to go back to

Horia, What does your Dec drift look like if you turn guiding off? Most of your guiding corrections appear to be in one direction, which could indicate poor polar alignment. Best, Luca

For now, that is true. However, I should be able to alter the installer to detect Windows 7 and install Eltima V9. Otherwise, V10 will be installed. If that is not possible for some reason, I will

Hi Ray, so we have to run your Program always after an update, when using win7? Grüsse Konni Konstantin v. Poschinger Hammerichstr. 5 22605 Hamburg 040/8805747 0171/1983476

Thanks, Larry, for letting me know! I'm glad that solved the problem. -Ray

Hi Konstantin, A-P asked that I change the installer to always install/reinstall the Eltima virtual ports because the optional install checkbox was generating support questions about when to enable

My AP-1100 (August 2021, no encoders) shows, most of the time, slightly worse guiding in Dec than in RA. A typical example (one 300sec frame) looks like this: The blue curve is the RA and the

Hi Ray, nice to hear that is works. In older versions there was a break so that you could decide to install the software for the virtual ports or not. Do they have to be installed in ervery new

Ray, Yea!! That fixed it. A million thanks for going the extra mile on this. Larry

Hi Larry/Konstantin, I have confirmed that this is an issue with the Eltima V10 ActiveX control. It does not work with Windows 7. However, I made a small installer that will install the Eltima V9

One can do HDR composition with PI. Two sets of photos one at short exposires for the core and one longer. That will give the best of both. Quite easy to do. I've done it for the trapezium on

I have some PS images that have over 20 layers and many of them have certain parts of the image painted here and there, especially with sharpening. Some of my files are close to four Gb. Robert

I was going to mention Pixel Math as I know it can do similar things. An advantage that Photoshop has though is that you can paint masks (and lots of other manipulations of them). So if you are

I was going to mention Pixel Math as I know it can do similar things. I have so much trouble with Pixinsight. It just has so many variables to deal with that I can’t wrap my brain around it. It

Interesting. I'll have to try that. Thanks, Peter

>>>Thanks for the pointing this out but I don't own PS. I have tried using PS in the past but I just don't have the knack for it. I find PixInsight easier. in that case, even better! you can use

Thanks for the pointing this out but I don't own PS. I have tried using PS in the past but I just don't have the knack for it. I find PixInsight easier. Thanks, Peter

If you use Photoshop you can combine the two images in two different ways. You can put one over the other at 50% or some other percentage you want to average the two to get a little bit of both

Larry, this looks like an issue with Windows 7. I'll see if there is anything that can be done, but since Windows 7 is no longer supported, this may mean you will need to upgrade Windows if you want