Hi Lock042,
Many thanks for your comment.
I just try to bring to Siril developters team a point of view of a ‘normal’ user that has been using this free an extraordinary program for almost two years.
A normal user that invested time to read every single point in the old and new website, plus all the manuals and saw alredy all the Siril videos.
Is almost imposible avoid to do a comparision when there are only two ‘Free’ fundamental programs that can do a stacking process with high quality result: Siril and Deep Sky Stacker. Others like Sequaror is more for other kind of stack and basicly for Milky Way/panorama images not for DSO -in my modest opinion-.
Not sure why to bring ‘Blender’ or ‘Pix Insight’ into this. Is other category and I’m not planning to get into PI in the near future, but as you called it, PI have the possibility to do several night sessions with a final result stack in 4 steps: from each night sessions produce a calibrated light with its dark, flats, bias associated, then registered each session night, then aligned all sessions choosing a guide frame for all them, then Integrated all the calibrated-registered lights of all sessions for produce a final result.
Is not even about ‘automatization’ as you wrongly call in regard DSS, while Siril’s script is indeed an ‘automatization’ of the Siril process stacking…for a single group of frames.
Manually: the user need to choose the same settings and parameters in Siril as in DSS but with a noted difference: while in DSS it can be done in just one go or two steps (if you want to choose before the final stack the frame guide) in Siril you need 26 steps for to do the same.
Is about workflow.
More in deep, DSS can also do the several night sessions with the same one or two steps, while Siril required not only the manually 26 steps for each night session but also that the user manage other program for work the stacking of several session process in the main Siril program.
And a lot of disck space. For example for 378 frames stacked took me 650 Gb, for 2 drizzle 1.2 Tb
So in the end, is a user problem decide enter in the Siril workflow perspective or not for do a properly ‘several night sessions’.
Tha’s all, but that does meant is more eficiently or reward more quality in the stacking final image.
I also comment that I like more the ‘granulosity’ of the final Siril ‘result’ image than the one that came from DSS, but that doesnt meant that DSS final stack has less quality compared with Siril ones.
In fact, is the reason I ended blending both stacking images after I process them in a imaging program.
Anyways it was just a consideration, keep the good work and Clear Skies.
Best regards
Chicca