Mars 04.04.2014 dual process

[Pete Presland]

 

two images from a very short session on friday night. seeing pretty poor as usual, but at least it was clear

C9.25/ASI120MM. 3000 @ RGB, stacked around 500-700.

both are stacked in registax5 with wavelets. 1st image is not processed after registax, 2nd is a rather clumsy 1st attempt at using high pass filters and a gaussian blur.

rather depressingly these are my best Mars images of the winter  but still better than 4 years ago!

[Steve Ward]

Looks good to me Pete ... 

I'd give it a stack in AS!2 personally , then Wavelets in Reg.6.

[Pete Presland]

Looks good to me Pete ... 

I'd give it a stack in AS!2 personally , then Wavelets in Reg.6.

is the wavelets in reg6 much different from reg 5?

[SnakeyJ]

Well done Pete, the first looks better to me - plenty of surface detail, but might want some more wavelet sharpening.

Definitely recommend AS!2 for the stacking - I find it simpler and much faster than Registax. I haven't used R5, but the per wavelet noise control in R6 gives lots of control.

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[Pete Presland]

Well done Pete, the first looks better to me - plenty of surface detail, but might want some more wavelet sharpening.

Definitely recommend AS!2 for the stacking - I find it simpler and much faster than Registax. I haven't used R5, but the per wavelet noise control in R6 gives lots of control.

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what is the per wavelet noise control ?

[Steve Ward]

You have more control in Reg 6 , with Gaussian set you can adjust the Sharpening and Noise Reduction on each level , and the Direct setting in the Histogram is nice too , it automatically adjusts as soon as you move the sliders - it also has a Grey adjust as well as the Black and White points.

[Pete Presland]

sounds interesting i have never used it before. how do you find AS!2 for the stacking instead of registax?

[Virgoman]

Hi Pete. Autostakkert is much, much faster and gives excellent results. Now the weapon of choice for many! . I rarely use Registax anymore except for sharpening as alluded to in previous post.

                                 Best regards,

                                                        Ralph

[Steve Ward]

I still rely on Reg 5.1 for my DSLR work as it gives me much more control over Alignment , but AS!2 for any AVI stacking.

I would use AS!2 for my Solar discs as it does a great job with single frames too ,  but the maximum box size is 2400 x 2400 and that's too small for my discs , this has reminded me to drop Emil a line regarding altering it to 2600 x 2600.

[CATLUC]

Hello 

This is what I get on my side with R6. 

Good day. 

Luc

[Pete Presland]

very nice image Luc, what equipment was it taken with?

[Pete Presland]

i had a look at AS2 looks like i will have to find some tutorials and have a go at it.

[Steve Ward]

Plenty of tutorials here .... 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=autostakkert+tutorial

[Pete Presland]

Plenty of tutorials here .... 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=autostakkert+tutorial

nice one Steve thanks.