Albategnius & Hipparchus 16 Dec

[mightymonoped]

These were captured in a real hurry at my conservatory doorstep (while i was cooking dinner )

2 panes, each of about 100/1000 frames, 4 point MAP processed in registax then a bit of curves in CS2

ED80, TAL 3x Barlow, unmodded ToUcam on an EQ5

Tony

[barkis]

Great capture there Tony. That's a busy looking area of the moon.

In a hurry too, must remember that. I used to take my time, and the results were usually garbage.

Ron.

[mightymonoped]

Thanks Ron.

I forgot to mention I resized the avi to 150% before processing in Registax, the ED80 is quite forgiving of blowing up the images. My intention was to reduce it back down to normal size, but it didn't look too bad, so I left it be.

Tony

[Starflyer]

Good stuff Tony

Do you resize the avi in Virtualdub? I've tried to do this in the past but Registrax bombed out part way through the initial alignment and I gave up after a couple of attempts.

Thanks,

Ian

[beamish]

Belter !!

[mightymonoped]

Good stuff Tony

Do you resize the avi in Virtualdub? I've tried to do this in the past but Registrax bombed out part way through the initial alignment and I gave up after a couple of attempts.

Thanks,

Ian

Hi Ian,

If I'm going for detail, I usually pre-process it in VirtualDub as follows:-

Apply a filter for resizing - in this case 150% using Lanczos

If I'm concentrating on a specific area then I'll also use cropping to reduce the resultant avi filesize (and the amount of work that Registax needs to do!)

Then I go through each frame an take out any really bad frames (entire sections of bad seeing)

Then save the resized/cropped/cleaned avi for processing with Registax

I haven't had any issues with Regi in processing avi's of around 1.5Gb in size although I have had similar problems as yourself before. I'm using a totally new laptop/software setup now that's a lot more powerful (core duo T2250 and 2Gb RAM)

I seem to recall a thread somewhere on on this particular problem, I'll see if I can find it and post the link.

Tony

[Starflyer]

Many thanks Tony,

I think I was trying to resize to 200% with no cropping, it may have been a file size problem as they were huge. I'll try your method on some of my captures and let you know how I get on.

Cheers,

Ian