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3. Select Orion Parsec High Quality

in the Select Camera pull down

menu (Figure 24).

4. Click OK and the image should

appear in color. You can make

several adjustments to the Color

Balance if needed (see “Color

Balance”).

5.3. Stacking –

Combining Images

Combining individual deep sky images

enhances the detail in the deep sky

object by improving the signal to noise

ratio.

We will demonstrate stacking LRGB

images; however, a similar process

works for monochrome, one-shot color,

and RGB image sets.

1. Select the Process menu Stack

command (Figure 25)

2. On the Select tab, turn on

Classify by OBJECT and FILTER.

3. Click the FILTER button to set

up the ﬁlter mapping. This will

determine what ﬁlters are mapped

into which LRGB color channels.

To change a row, click once on

the row, then click once on the

Filter Color item, and enter a new

value. This will make sure that your

ﬁlters are automatically assigned

to the correct group (Figure 26).

4. If your images have not yet been

calibrated, turn on Mark added

images as Auto Calibrate. Each

image will automatically be calibrated as it is needed, using the settings from

the Set Calibration command.

5. Click the drop list on the multi-function button and select Add Folder.

Browse to a folder on disk where your images are located. This folder may

contain images of several different targets, as long as the OBJECT FITS

keyword is set in each image (during imaging, this is automatically obtained

from the Observatory Control window if a telescope is connected).

6. The Tree View on the left side of

the Stack dialog will now show all

the image ﬁles you have selected,

arranged into groups according to

their FITS header. You can open

the groups to view the ﬁles by

clicking on the + sign. If you would

like to view an individual ﬁle, right-

click it and select Display Image.

Alternatively, using the right-click

menu select Auto Display, and

any image you click on will be

automatically displayed.

7. If necessary, you can move images

or entire groups by dragging

them. You can set properties for

groups or individual ﬁles using the

right-click menu.

8. Select the Quality tab (Figure

27). If you would like to eliminate

images with out-of-round stars

caused by bad tracking, turn on

the Roundness check box. The

Threshold should be set to limit

how far out of round the star can

be; for example, 0.1 will throw out

any image with stars that are more

than 10% out of round. Click the

Measure All button, and any bad

images will automatically receive

an X in the enable box. You can

manually override this decision if

you like, by changing the enable

box.

9. Select the Align tab (Figure 28).

If your images have been solved

using PinPoint Astrometry you may

wish to use the Astrometric align

mode, which is extremely accurate.

Alternatively, the Auto Star

Matching mode is fully automatic

and quite accurate. There are a

variety of other alignment modes

available, including manual

alignment.

Figure 24.

The Convert Color window

converts raw images taken from the Parsec

8300C to color.

Figure 25. The Stack window is a

powerful feature which automatically

calibrates, sorts LRGB ﬁltered images, and

combines your astroimages.

Figure 27. The Stack window

can measure the image quality and

automatically reject the ones which are not

good enough to combine.

Figure 26. Filter Channels.

Figure 28. The Align tab can

automatically align (register) your

images by using Auto Star Matching or

Astrometric functions.

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