Spent 3 hours trying to get rid of a weird green line in my Jupiter shot

I was stacking my Jupiter frames from last night and this thin green line kept showing up right through the planet. I checked my camera settings, my stacking software, even my monitor. Turns out it was a single bad pixel on my planetary camera sensor that only showed up on bright targets. I had to manually remove that frame from the stack, which took forever. Anyone know a better way to filter out single bad frames in Autostakkert?

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grayt462mo ago

That "single bad pixel on my planetary camera sensor" is exactly what changed my mind. I used to just stack everything and hope for the best. Now I always run my video files through PIPP first and use its bad pixel filter. It adds a step, but it catches those single-frame errors before they ever get to Autostakkert.

thomas86224d ago

Wait, hold up. You're saying you had a single bad pixel that was causing that much trouble? lmao. I was always in the "stacking software handles it" camp too but honestly I never thought about it like that. Now you got me wondering how many times a tiny sensor flaw has been messing with my Jupiter shots without me even knowing. I might have to actually give PIPP a try just to see what I've been missing.

diana_thompson382mo ago

Honestly, that extra step feels like a waste of time to me. Tbh, stacking software is already really good at throwing out bad frames on its own. Adding another program just makes the whole process longer for a tiny gain. Ngl, I've never used PIPP and my planetary shots turn out fine. I'd rather spend that time capturing more data than running more filters.

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