Orion 52084 instruction manual Flat Field Calibration, Convert Raw to Color

This process can be automated for all of your light images, see “Batch Processing”.

Flat Field Calibration

Calibrating your flat field images is done in the same way as calibrating your dark frames, but you also need to subtract dark frames for your flat field images.

To flat field calibrate:

1.Select Setup Calibrate in the Process menu.

2.Click Add under the Flat- Field Frames box in the Setup Calibration window and select the file folder location for the flat field images taken. Select the flat field files and click Open. The selected flat field files will now appear in the pop-up window (Figure 15).

Figure 16. The Convert Raw to Color window converts your raw StarShoot Pro images to RGB color.

3.Click Add under the Darks for Flats box in the Setup Calibration window and select the file folder location for the flat field dark frames taken. This is why it’s very important to label your autosaved images.

4.Select Calibrate from the Process menu and the flats will be calibrated.

If you have taken darks and flats, you can calibrate all of them at the same time (Figure 15).

Convert Raw to Color

Once you have calibrated your images, you need to convert them to color:

1.Open the raw images you wish to convert to color. If you need to convert more than 5 images or so, please refer to “Batch Processing” as this method allows you to combine an unlimited number of images without consuming more memory from your computer.

2.Select Convert Raw to Color in the Process menu.

3.Select StarShoot Pro High Quality in the Camera Type pull down menu (Figure 16).

4.Click OK and the image should appear in color. You can make several adjustments to the Color Balance if needed (see “Color Balance”).

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