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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Fay on May 26, 2014, 11:34:29

Title: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: Fay on May 26, 2014, 11:34:29
i stacked a few milky way subs with DSS. it was weird as they stacked as a vertical column, nothing near the full frame. has anyone an idea why this may have happened?
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: mickw on May 26, 2014, 11:44:58
Were all the frames taken in "Landscape" format ?

I believe if one of them is "Portrait" DSS throws a wobbler, they must all be the same format
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: The Thing on May 26, 2014, 12:16:38
Make sure you don't have Intersection set as the output result and that you don't have a selection box showing on the files list screen image display as that will get DSS to only process the selected area (good for trying out different settings as it's much quicker).
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: Fay on May 26, 2014, 14:52:03
everything seems to be ok with settings etc but i must have something wrong. all lanscape. will have another go
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: Carole on May 26, 2014, 15:03:54
Have you got another stacking software Fay?
I am sure you used to have Astroart, have you tried that, it often works when DSS fails.

Carole
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: Fay on May 26, 2014, 17:16:25
must be a setting wrong somewhere.

in DSS it stacked as a vertical column in bright purple and black.

in Astroart it stacked full size in mono.

in PS it was automatically showing as grayscale, but when i changed it to RGB it was still mono.

in Canon software it shows in colour normally
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: MarkS on May 26, 2014, 18:06:39
Is it the 600D?

Most likely cause is that your DSS cannot interpret this fairly recent RAW file format.  Download a later version of DSS.  Check the DSS homepage to see if 600D is supported with your version.

Mark
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: Fay on May 26, 2014, 18:09:03
also why is Astroart stack mono

600d yes

DSS version 3.3.2
Title: Re: dslr stacking and DSS
Post by: Fay on May 26, 2014, 19:09:15
DSS is opening a single frame in the wrong size. so it is not the stacking