Lunar processing workflow for maximum sharpness...

[Avdhoeven]

I made a workflow description how to process lunar images to get these results. It can be found here...

[ianaiken]

Thanks I was having a go at some lunar processing earlier but didn't get very good results. I hope to get some time to read your workflow, it looks very well written and detailed.

[Grunthos]

What an excellent document.

Dank u wel Avdhoeven, I learned a lot from this.

(Am currently having a play with Avistack2 which I've never seen before)

[The_PSY3NTIST]

[Bizibilder]

Thank you! - Downloaded and reading it now.

[msinclairinork]

Just so happens I got my first lunar mosaic last night, so going to give this a go!

Thanks!!

Michael

[msinclairinork]

OK run into a problem already on step one!?

I can't open my avi's as it is saying "frame length does not match codec" seems to work fine in registax, any suggestions?

Thanks,

Michael

[Avdhoeven]

on the avistack site there is a small file you need to download to open all avi formats.... it's described there...

[msinclairinork]

perfect thanks!

Michael

[msinclairinork]

OK second question: It is taking about 2.5hrs to stack one 1400 frame avi. Is this normal? That's probably going to take 2.5 days to get this done?

Seems a long time doesn't it?

Thanks,

Michael

[Bizibilder]

You need to turn off the display screen: Settings > Update Display > None. This will speed things up quite a bit.

[Avdhoeven]

I use an I7 laptop, than it only takes about 5-10 minutes or so.

I just found a very good alternative. The new autostakkert2 software is really good and gets the same detail with much less settings and time needed....

you can find it by googling for autostakkert....

[msinclairinork]

Thanks for the tips. Could be my laptop as it just gave me the blue screen of death!..hmm..

[water1958]

Thanks, just what I have been looking for. I can't wait to try it.

[Steve 1962]

That's really good - thanks for putting the time and effort into that.

I use Avistack 2 and your tutorial has answered quite a few points that I've tinkered with, not really understanding what I'm doing.

Off now to try the other software you've suggested ...

Thanks again

Steve

[Avdhoeven]

Glad to hear that.... I hoped it could be useful...

[michaelmorris]

Great tutorial, thanks.

[Astroblagger]

good tutorial is there a trial version of astra image?

[msinclairinork]

Seems to be - 2 weeks I think.

Michael

[BigDunc78]

hello i downloaded astra image and tried it on some previous good moon images with the settings in the tutorial, i dont seem to get anything like the result in the tutorial any ideas why?

[Avdhoeven]

That really surprises me, it should normally work quite well. Can you send me an image file? Just pm me for my mail address...

[BigDunc78]

here is abefore and after any ideas why it looks so bad? maybe i need to reduce the settings?

1 (16).tif

after deconvolution.tif

[Avdhoeven]

I see some kind of jpg artefacts in the image. Which software did you use to stack the images and what camera and software did you use to capture the data? It looks like the camera itself already does some compression when recording...

[Steve 1962]

Hi Andre

Just to confirm - you don't appear to use the post processing / Wavelet routine in Avistack - or am I missing something??

Cheers

Steve

[Avdhoeven]

that's correct. post processing is done with astra image...