Hello. I’ve reached a point of frustration and I’m unsure how to proceed. I have some image stacks that show up with these odd looking horizontal “lines. I cannot figure out what is causing it. I pre-processed in WBPP using lights, darks, bias, flats...
Horizontal line artifacts in images match author's description of horizontal lines in subs.
Suddenly after no problems with star shapes, the next night out they were just terrible! Below I show a gif comparing two 2 hr stacks, one with the good stars, and the next with elongated stars. In this example the distortion was vertical. But later ...
Fan vibration causes image artifacts; could explain mysterious horizontal lines in stacks.