Beginner's guide to stacking planetary images with AutoStakkert!2

[egidio]

i tried to take pictures at the moon, i discorvered that it's a take focus..i mean, for the telescope the focus looks fine (it looks fine in the little screen of the camera too) but when i zoom the pics and when i put them in the computer they are kinda blurry even tho the focus is right...why? =( will this happen with the asi 120mc too? I hope not..anyway, i took also a video and im currently processing it with pipp (1200 frames of 7800 total) let's see what happens with the video...

[egidio]

nothing happend, video was kinda blurry too... =( i thought that at least i could take nice pics with prime focus at the moon...but they looks weird

[egidio]

omg something has just occured to me: maybe the camera is not inserted enough into the barlow???

[JamesF]

omg something has just occured to me: maybe the camera is not inserted enough into the barlow???

That would give you a larger image and change the point of focus, certainly.

James

[astrodude]

Thank your so much.

[Carlos Espada]

Thank you very very much James. You have just solved several doubts I had, with your fantastic tutorial. These are the first results,

A little noisy but look fine,  don´t they?

My equipement:

OTA Celestron Edge HD C9.25" XLT. 

German Mount SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro Go-To.

Camera ZWO ASI 174MC Colour.

Barlow Televue 2.5x Powermate.

Videos 4 minutes, 30 FPS, taken with Firecapturer, 35 km away from Madrid center.

Registax 6, wavelets scheme 1 of http://www.madpc.co.uk/~peterl/DSOs/GWSchemes.html

 

Thanks again.

 

 

 

 

 

[astropicbeginner]

Hi..... I'm very new to all this but I'm having a go.... I've downloaded both Registax and Autostakkert 2.... And now I'm stuck!!! I cannot find any straightforward instructions... I have taken a sample video to start myself off (mars...!).... Registax will accept the video but I'm not exactly sure what to do.... Autostakkert will not accept any video I try to upload, also the analyse option is seemingly unavailable to me (which I'm reasonably sure is because I cannot get a video clip uploaded...) 

I was originally working with .mov files but I converted one to .avi, which Registax then accepted and will do... things....(!).... but Autostakkert will still not open.... 

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, all advice will be very gratefully received!

Thanks in advance!

[RythmTech]

On 11/10/2018 at 08:12, astropicbeginner said:

Hi..... I'm very new to all this but I'm having a go.... I've downloaded both Registax and Autostakkert 2.... And now I'm stuck!!! I cannot find any straightforward instructions... I have taken a sample video to start myself off (mars...!).... Registax will accept the video but I'm not exactly sure what to do.... Autostakkert will not accept any video I try to upload, also the analyse option is seemingly unavailable to me (which I'm reasonably sure is because I cannot get a video clip uploaded...) 

I was originally working with .mov files but I converted one to .avi, which Registax then accepted and will do... things....(!).... but Autostakkert will still not open.... 

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, all advice will be very gratefully received!

Thanks in advance!

I found the tutorial on page 1 pretty comprehensive... Did you run the video through PiPP first? That worked for me. Just re-read through the tutorial and make sure you follow each step.

 

Edited April 6, 2019 by RythmTech

[JohnPMatty]

Man I could get the same result on my picture!  I followed along and it turned out not that great.

[RogerL]

This is perfect: a great simple workflow:? I use each of these tools, but not necessarily in the correct sequence!

[inFINNity Deck]

On 18/08/2018 at 17:38, Carlos Espada said:

 

A little noisy but look fine,  don´t they?

You can reduce noise by stacking more frames:

All four images from the same AVI (not sure how many frames it contained, probably somewhere between 15k and 60k). Imaging done last year using C11, 2x Barlow, ZWO ADC, ZWO ASI290MC. The images are not quite sharp, but their sole purpose was to show the effect of stack-size.

Nicolàs

 

[Swoop1]

Thanks for this James.

I have been trying to process last nights data and, having got to the Analyse stage, couldn't proceed past step one until I found this.

[JamesF]

You're welcome.  I have to admit that I'd forgotten I'd written it, it was so long ago

James