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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.