the more frames the better, in order to 'beat the seeing'.fps matter, the higher the better chance of decent images.What I have learnt over a couple of years trying to improve my lunar images is that: Different operating systems and capture packages but the basics are same. Many of the images (single frame and multi-panel mosaics) have detailed capture settings which might give you some starting points. If you have a look around my Astrobin site there are several lunar images captured under both Windows & Linux. My 30,000 frame video here produced a 23Gb file. I have attended 4 one day lunar/planetary imagining workshops by Damian Peach, a world class lunar/planetary imager, who recommended use of the SER format for capture. It took me 3 nights to get it on the camera sensor For general entertainment, here is my first ever image of Saturn (first ever image actually).

Expect to have to use a high gain to get something. Some Saturn info here viewtopic.php?f=16&t=256, same approach as Jupiter. Planets were low here at 53N in 2018 so no real chance to improve on 2017's efforts. I have seen (older) imaging books where sharpening was done in Photoshop. %20Quality.Īnd are related to Unsharp Mask radius setting in PhotoShop or GIMP. For lunar/planetary, I always set the offset/brightness/black level to the minimum allowable setting in order to achieve the 'whale shaped histogram ' for log selected, see. There should be some useful capture/process info in there for you as the capture was done with a Celestron C8. For that Jupiter image, in Registax, Layer 2 slider was set to ~20. Jupiter is rising now around 05:00 UK time (January 2019). Hope you found the document useful - I learned a lot writing it. The document uses aggressive wavelet settings mainly to demonstrate the features of Registax. These 2 images were produced using only Autostakkert to carry out the stacking and sharpen the stack.

Has some interesting experimental features.Multiple SER files can be stacked by selecting the files and dragging and dropping onto the Open button.64-bit version available - faster processing and less likely to run out of memory with big files.Sharpen a stacked image, which sometimes is good enough and no further software needed.I have used Autostakkert to stack 1,000 M42 frames. Stack deep sky images - check out the numbers on this.I find the integral flat is handy when processing lunar images. Image Calibration - create and apply master dark and master flat.

, he used Autostakkert for stacking and Registax for wavelets processing. Quite simply because having attended Lunar and Planetary workshops by world class planetary imager Damian Peach, Why do I use Autostakkert for stacking and Registax for wavelets? Since Registax can stack and do the wavelet processing, can we not skip using Autostakkert?

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