Aliasing pattern? [Deep Sky] Processing techniques · Carlo Paschetto · ... · 7 · 208 · 2

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Hello everybody, hope this is the right place for this question. 

By performing an extreme stretch of some images resulting from my usual stacking process, I noticed that a "square" pattern often emerges in the background like the one in the below detail cut from a super-stretched stacked image.
To give an idea, given a 32Mpx image, this squares have a size of approximately 350-400 pixels.
Is this an aliasing pattern phenomenon or what else, and how could I fix it?

I shoot with a modded Canon 90D and normal DSLR lenses, always using bias, dark and flat fields to calibrate my light frames before stacking them. I have noticed that these patterns seem not being related to the specific stacking process I use (I've compared the results got with PixInsight and Siril, using different procedures to calibrate and stack images) and observed that the phenomenon is not always evident, but it seems to happen more when I push the zoom to high focal lengths. 

Thank you for your support!

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andreatax 9.89
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It looks like a sensor-based pattern rather than optically induced. Did you remove the anti-aliasing filter when the camera was modded?
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AstroHabu 0.00
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@andrea tasselli Good point actually, so I just checked, but it seems that the Canon 90D is made without the AA filter 
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andrea tasselli:
It looks like a sensor-based pattern rather than optically induced. Did you remove the anti-aliasing filter when the camera was modded?

Good point actually, so I just checked, but it seems that the Canon 90D is made without the AA filter 
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andreatax 9.89
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Well, then the most likely explanation (without having recourse to the real data) is that the pattern resides with the sensor.
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Shinpah 1.51
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Has that image you shared been processed at all outside of simply stretching it?

Some pixinsight add-on tools that one can purchase and used for denoising or star removal can introduce these kinds of square background artifacts.
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Has that image you shared been processed at all outside of simply stretching it?

Some pixinsight add-on tools that one can purchase and used for denoising or star removal can introduce these kinds of square background artifacts.

@Shinpah I believe you got the point. I did not realized that all the images I was testing were processed  at some step before with the star removal add on. To countercheck, I stretched the image of my attached example as it is just out of the stacking before any further processing step, and it seems not showing any pattern, only ordinary background and noise. Then I made some more test and noticed that, although working much better for its purpose, StarXTerminator seems being responsible for introducing the pattern, while images processed through Starnet2 apparently are fine. Great! (Well, not so great, as StarXTerminator is quite a key resource remove stars, now I have to understand how to deal with this unpleasant side effect). Thank you!
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Shinpah 1.51
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The "large overlap" setting in starxterminator might address the issue - that's up for you to experiment with.
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