{ "name": "RegiStax 6 Exact Test A -20: 2026-10-18 vs 2026-10-21 vs 2026-10-23", "purpose": "Strict same native RegiStax wavelet file across dates, no Topaz, no Gold Mid, no ring whitening, no extra conventional denoising. Decide whether new data is inherently weaker.", "wavelet_file": "Oct18_TestA_Minus20_exact.rwv", "wavelet_sha256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "sliders": [ 25.2, 15.8, 7.2, 0.9, 0.9, 0.9 ], "stack": "AutoStakkert 4 10% 1.5x drizzle for all dates", "limitations": "Original SER ROI/focal length/seeing/exposure and RegiStax RGB-align/balance/median preprocessing differ by session. These are real pre-Topaz RegiStax outputs with matching spatial-wavelet settings; do not claim all other acquisition variables equal. Oct18 source is raw RegiStax native Test A, NOT the Gold Mid hybrid Test A with inherited Topaz rings.", "captures": [ { "night": "Oct18", "time": "2301", "label": "Oct 18, 11:01 PM", "png": "Saturn_Oct18_2301_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.png", "tiff": "Saturn_Oct18_2301_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\comparisons-20261021\\oct18-2301-real-registax-wavelets\\RegiStax_NativeWavelets_A_minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "5f3a7ccacb3314aca3e04b3edd1cd01878adc33be0dbda4972a708406d772a0b", "width": 480, "height": 300, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": "Saturn_Oct18_2301_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "matched_saturn_width_px": 467.0, "source_bounding_width_px": 475, "source_bounding_height_px": 183, 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"balanced_leveled_png": "Saturn_Oct18_2301_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png" } }, { "night": "Oct21", "time": "2329", "label": "Oct 21, 11:29 PM", "png": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.png", "tiff": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\session-20261021-evening\\real_profiles\\Saturn_Oct21_2329_P10_RegiStax_Minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "b80b4f75aa811d44a7500adf55eae88660337c80fe94d1a4d957a645a5b88c25", "width": 624, "height": 264, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "matched_saturn_width_px": 467.0, "source_bounding_width_px": 457, "source_bounding_height_px": 184, 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104.0 ], "ring_pixels_used": 5200, "original_source_16bit_sha256_unchanged": "b80b4f75aa811d44a7500adf55eae88660337c80fe94d1a4d957a645a5b88c25", "balanced_tiff": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_16bit.tif", "balanced_native_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral.png", "balanced_matched_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "balanced_leveled_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2329_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png" } }, { "night": "Oct21", "time": "2342", "label": "Oct 21, 11:42 PM", "png": "Saturn_Oct21_2342_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.png", "tiff": "Saturn_Oct21_2342_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\session-20261021-evening\\real_profiles\\Saturn_Oct21_2342_P10_RegiStax_Minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "b7fab02a8a2329fa701b29ef4357049636bdf7288c4bc2f44cc18b77d5cc3438", "width": 624, "height": 264, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2342_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "matched_saturn_width_px": 467.0, "source_bounding_width_px": 458, "source_bounding_height_px": 184, "display_resample_scale": 1.019651, "display_transform": [ [ 1.0196506977081299, 0.0, 80.8493423461914 ], [ 0.0, 1.0196506977081299, 79.38645935058594 ] ], "leveled_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2342_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png", "leveled_for_reference": "Oct18_2301", "measured_angle_before_degrees": -12.5237, "measured_angle_after_degrees": -0.7892, 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"balanced_matched_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2342_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "balanced_leveled_png": "Saturn_Oct21_2342_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png" } }, { "night": "Oct21", "time": "2345", "label": "Oct 21, 11:45 PM", "png": "Saturn_Oct21_2345_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.png", "tiff": "Saturn_Oct21_2345_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\session-20261021-evening\\real_profiles\\Saturn_Oct21_2345_P10_RegiStax_Minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "72f5b21aab2ee3ab9ae0ea1d65dfe3d2d38a4d6cc573ab4278bba44c90a94cd4", "width": 624, "height": 264, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": 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"Saturn_Oct23_0003_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\session-20261022-evening\\published_lab\\Saturn_Oct22_0003_P10_RegiStax_Minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "7977671c3add1235a67097750cc794d458e756d54eb6af2e59c28003f8fd28ac", "width": 624, "height": 264, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": "Saturn_Oct23_0003_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "matched_saturn_width_px": 467.0, "source_bounding_width_px": 461, "source_bounding_height_px": 180, "display_resample_scale": 1.013015, "display_transform": [ [ 1.0130151510238647, 0.0, 82.41973876953125 ], [ 0.0, 1.0130151510238647, 80.26898193359375 ] ], "rgb_balanced": { "method": "neutral main-ring wings (gray-world B/R to G, consistently applied to all captures, green unchanged)", 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"tiff": "Saturn_Oct23_0007_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\session-20261022-evening\\published_lab\\Saturn_Oct22_0007_P10_RegiStax_Minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "0485600c82bdece982a820b3077bd2daa8040caf01a237b7ab0840b21b378f5a", "width": 624, "height": 264, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": "Saturn_Oct23_0007_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "matched_saturn_width_px": 467.0, "source_bounding_width_px": 461, "source_bounding_height_px": 178, "display_resample_scale": 1.013015, "display_transform": [ [ 1.0130151510238647, 0.0, 83.43275451660156 ], [ 0.0, 1.0130151510238647, 80.26898193359375 ] ], "rgb_balanced": { "method": "neutral main-ring wings (gray-world B/R to G, consistently applied to all captures, green unchanged)", 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"tiff": "Saturn_Oct23_0010_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native.tif", "source_path": "K:\\Data\\ChatGPT\\AllskyBridge\\saturn-work\\session-20261022-evening\\published_lab\\Saturn_Oct22_0010_P10_RegiStax_Minus20.tif", "source_sha256": "b5c0668bece97f8d0b8788044b6bd05e5b26215e9591568174ec693dbc10997d", "width": 624, "height": 264, "authentic_native_RegiStax6": true, "same_exact_RWV_SHA256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "no_look_processing": true, "matched_png": "Saturn_Oct23_0010_AS4P10_Drizzle15_ExactRWV_TestA_Minus20_Native_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "matched_saturn_width_px": 467.0, "source_bounding_width_px": 462, "source_bounding_height_px": 179, "display_resample_scale": 1.010823, "display_transform": [ [ 1.0108225345611572, 0.0, 83.61255645751953 ], [ 0.0, 1.0108225345611572, 81.0660171508789 ] ], "rgb_balanced": { "method": "neutral main-ring wings (gray-world B/R to G, consistently applied to all captures, green unchanged)", 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"ring_before_bgr_8bit": [ 98.0, 116.0, 123.0 ], "ring_after_bgr_8bit": [ 116.0, 116.0, 116.0 ], "ring_pixels_used": 5254, "original_source_16bit_sha256_unchanged": "b448c7ceed7ab087e18b96119b74f0712b0557003ed3ce29b6dc457b010ee6b0", "balanced_tiff": "Saturn_Oct19_2353_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_16bit.tif", "balanced_native_png": "Saturn_Oct19_2353_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral.png", "balanced_matched_png": "Saturn_Oct19_2353_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "balanced_leveled_png": "Saturn_Oct19_2353_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png" } }, { "night": "Oct20", "time": "2349", "label": "Oct 20, 11:49 PM EDT (AS4 P10)", "png": "Saturn_Oct20_2349_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20.png", "tiff": "Saturn_Oct20_2349_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20.tif", "matched_png": 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"c0cfb512cd561067153fb3b90c5631818b7127b9ed9d9f3f730a825d5a38abb9", "ring_original_angle_deg": -0.665, "reference_angle_deg": -0.694, "ring_leveled_deg": -0.702, "ring_source_bbox": [ 84, 60, 469, 182 ], "matched_display_ring_width_px": 467, "applied_rotation_deg": 0.0293, "applied_display_scale": 0.99574, "compare_status": "identical_RegiStax_wavelets; distinct original acquisition", "strict_same_AS4_P10": true, "rgb_balanced": { "method": "neutral main-ring wings (gray-world B/R to G, consistently applied to all captures, green unchanged)", "distinct_from_RegiStax_GUI_RGB_Balance_Auto": true, "bgr_gain": [ 1.2061856, 1.0, 0.9435484 ], "ring_before_bgr_8bit": [ 97.0, 117.0, 124.0 ], "ring_after_bgr_8bit": [ 117.0, 117.0, 117.0 ], "ring_pixels_used": 5238, "original_source_16bit_sha256_unchanged": "c0cfb512cd561067153fb3b90c5631818b7127b9ed9d9f3f730a825d5a38abb9", "balanced_tiff": "Saturn_Oct21_0002_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_16bit.tif", "balanced_native_png": "Saturn_Oct21_0002_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral.png", "balanced_matched_png": "Saturn_Oct21_0002_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "balanced_leveled_png": "Saturn_Oct21_0002_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png" } }, { "night": "Year2021", "time": "0355", "label": "Aug 24 2021 ARCHIVE ONLY (NOT requested Aug 10), 03:55 UT - AS3 P28", "png": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20.png", "tiff": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20.tif", "matched_png": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "leveled_png": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png", "width": 720, "height": 492, "source_original": "T:\\ChatGPT\\saturn-2021-reprocess\\2021_AS3_P28_Drizzle15_original.tif", "source_pixel_exact_uncompressed_fix": false, "AS4_P10": false, "wavelet_sha256": "4ea1a5f2ba5a93fede4633b407396866115843c276429d1563041c5065e5a97a", "stack_method": "AS3 best 28% 1.5x, archived 2021-08-24 03:55 UT", "source_registax_SHA256": "e47efd7ef5193ad48ad6f157725577f39697e8fb58cc3df7de299516b43c4b9f", "ring_original_angle_deg": -27.666, "reference_angle_deg": -0.694, "ring_leveled_deg": -0.696, "ring_source_bbox": [ 112, 97, 488, 294 ], "matched_display_ring_width_px": 467, "applied_rotation_deg": -26.9713, "applied_display_scale": 0.86211, "compare_status": "identical_RegiStax_wavelets; distinct original acquisition", "strict_same_AS4_P10": false, "rgb_balanced": { "method": "neutral main-ring wings (gray-world B/R to G, consistently applied to all captures, green unchanged)", "distinct_from_RegiStax_GUI_RGB_Balance_Auto": true, "bgr_gain": [ 1.2911392, 1.0, 1.02 ], "ring_before_bgr_8bit": [ 79.0, 102.0, 100.0 ], "ring_after_bgr_8bit": [ 102.0, 102.0, 101.0 ], "ring_pixels_used": 13888, "original_source_16bit_sha256_unchanged": "e47efd7ef5193ad48ad6f157725577f39697e8fb58cc3df7de299516b43c4b9f", "balanced_tiff": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_16bit.tif", "balanced_native_png": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral.png", "balanced_matched_png": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_DISPLAY.png", "balanced_leveled_png": "Saturn_Year2021_0355_NativeAS_RegiStax_ExactTestA_minus20_RGBBalanced_RingsNeutral_MATCHED_LEVEL_OCT18.png" }, "user_requested_2021_reference": "2021-08-10 (source not yet located)", "verified_archive_capture_date": "2021-08-24", "caution": "Do NOT relabel this source as Aug 10. Source traces to T:\\Data\\Captures\\Planetary\\Sat\\2021\\2021_08_24\\... and 03:55 UT SER." } ], "historical_extended_20261023": { "count_added": 8, "reference_Oct18_ring_angle_deg": -0.694, "source_handling": "All inputs genuine native unsharpened stacks, processed via actual RegiStax6 GUI with SHA-identical TestA-20 .rwv; Oct19 LZW compressed archive TIFF bit-exact transcoded for compatibility", "limits": "Oct07 uses AS3 P10 (same stack %, different AS version); 2021 uses AS3 P28 due to surviving original, not true P10 source. Ring opening angle 2021 physically different from 2026, display rotation cannot make geometry equivalent.", "all_viewed_at_identical_ring_span": true, "native_16bit_masters_unmodified": true }, "2021_reference_status": "Aug 10 2021 desired; no Aug 10 original stack/SER recovered from accessible T: B: Z: O: K: archives; Aug24 existing is archive only." }