Atik 414EX OSC and PI

[sreilly]

I am attempting to help a fellow member of my astronomy club with his image processing and am totally unfamiliar with OSC camera. I've determined the Bayer matrix is RGGB, at least that's what I am l think it is. I see the De-Bayer process but was expecting three images when it was used. Do I;

1) De-Bayer each image
2) Extract the RGB frames
3) align and stack the R, G, and B frames into masters
4) Combine the RGB image?

Thanks for a push in the right direction.

Steve

[IanL]

Calibrate (bias, darks, flats as required)
BatchDebayer script
StarAlignment
ImageIntegration

The BatchPreprocessing script will do the job if you don't want to use separate processes at first.

You don't need to split in to separate RGB images for OSC images usually. The FITS images after debayering have three planes for each image. The main difference from mono is that you only have one set of calibration frames, especially flats, which are applied before debayering.

Once you have the basic process sorted, look at the various drizzling options. They make a real difference to the end result if you have sufficient dithered sub's.