I've managed to get StarXterminator confused

[tomato]

Lately, I seem to be developing a dubious knack of getting processing tools to generate output far from what was intended. I have had a few highly entertaining results from APP's mosaic integration tool, and this has now been delivered as a starless image from StarXterminator.

The original image was a processed and stretched tiff file from StarTools, which I have used StarXterminator on successfully many times in the past, so I'm at a loss to account for what has gone wrong this time. Still, maybe it gives a distorted insight into how the algorithm works.

[tomato]

Can you see the scary green skull in the centre? Very Halloween.💀

[gorann]

In previous versions of StarXT I also had these squares turning up occasionally, but never as psychedelic as yours Steve! Obviously that super-intelligent program divides the task up in squares. I assume you will send it to Russ so he can figure it out.

[Craig a]

Crikey the ghosts of telescopes past are trying to come through!

[Budgie1]

I've seen something similar with StarNet2 when I have a linear image and don't put a tick in the box.

The latest PI version of StarXterminator doesn't have this tick box but earlier versions did, so are you trying to remove that stars from a linear image which StarXT thinks in non-linear?

[tomato]

The image was most definitely non linear, but the settings I used have always worked fine on stretched images apart from this one.

[ollypenrice]

I sometimes get visible squares as well though, so far, only in either mosaics or very dense starfields. Have you tried the 'Large Tile' option?

Olly