Author Topic: Linearfit giving curious result  (Read 5739 times)

Offline sonshadowcat

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Linearfit giving curious result
« on: 2019 November 20 09:24:27 »
I'm just a beginner PI user so bear with me if this is a dumb question 😀.

I'm trying to use linearfit to match my hydrogen and sulfur images to my oxygen (oxygen is brighter by far due to light pollution and broader filter). When I apply it, however, the images go almost entirely white.

Am I not supposed to use the oxygen as the reference image even though the histogram for it is clearly more tilted towards the right than any other image? Or is there a workaround I am not aware of?

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Re: Linearfit giving curious result
« Reply #1 on: 2019 November 20 10:21:19 »
recompute the STF for the image that you ran LF on. LF changes the brigtness of the image and the old STF is now too aggressive for the new data.

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Re: Linearfit giving curious result
« Reply #2 on: 2019 November 20 10:24:22 »
I did. The stretched image is nearly entirely white.

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Re: Linearfit giving curious result
« Reply #3 on: 2019 November 20 10:44:09 »
did you use linearfit on a stretched image?

try turning off the STF entirely...

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Re: Linearfit giving curious result
« Reply #4 on: 2019 November 20 10:50:47 »
I did not auto an already stretched image. I made sure that the stf was off entirely before I reapplied. I'll have to post some images when I get home to show what's going on.

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Re: Linearfit giving curious result
« Reply #5 on: 2019 November 20 12:17:49 »
Are the images already aligned?
LF must be used only on aligned images, both at linear stage.