Order of Operations

1. Start image pre-save hook (runs concurrently in background)
2. Dark frame calibration
3. Save FITS
4. Calculate jSQM
5. Debayer
6. Calculate ADU
7. Stack
8. Save RAW (non-stacked)
9. Stretch (16-bit)
10. 16-bit Contrast enhance (CLAHE)
11. Downsample to 8-bit
12. Detect stars
13. Line detection
14. Draw detections
15. Rotate
    1. 90 degree
    2. Angle
16. Flip verticle
17. Flip hoizontal
18. Crop
    • Image Circle or ROI
19. White balance
    1. SCNR
    2. MTF WB
    3. Manual WB
    4. Auto WB
20. Saturation
21. Gamma Correction
22. Sharpen
23. Contrast enhance (CLAHE)
24. Colorize (if grayscale)
25. Extract Long Term Keogram data
26. Image Circle Mask
27. Realtime Keogram
28. Fish-eye to Panorama
    1. Flip
    2. Label
    3. Save panorama image
29. Generate image for circular display
30. Logo overlay
31. Scale image
32. Image border
33. Overlays
    1. Moon overlay
    2. Lightgraph overlay
    3. Remote Image overlay
34. Label image
    1. Orbs
    2. Cardinal Directions
    3. Wait on pre-save hook to complete
    4. Text Overlay
35. Save image
36. Execute image post-save hook

History

Feb 2026

• Add remote image overlay
• Add sharpen

Jan 2026

• Add MTF WB

Oct 2025

• Add Image Circle Mask crop

Jun 2025

• Add pre- and post-save hooks

Mar 2025

• Add Gamma Correction
• Realtime Keogram

Jan 2025

• Add Lightgraph Overlay

Dec 2024

• Perform debayer before stacking

Nov 2024

• Add Image border
• Add Moon Overlay
• Fish-eye to Panorama before Logo overlay and Scale image

Nov 2023

• Add cardinal directions

Oct 2023

• Moved star and line detection before rotation/flip/crop