Moon improvement tips?

[Magnus_e]

So, as it's daytime all the time i have tested out imaging the moon.

The picture i captured on friday ended up pretty good, but it's not one of those real nice looking moon shots.

Any tips on how to improove would bee welcomed. Maby i can get a better result with a redoo of post.

The image was shoot in daylight with a thin layer of clouds.

I used a ST80 with a 2x barlow.

Shot in RAW

Cropped and centered in a avi in pipp (2400 x 2400 px)

Stacked in Autostackert! (used 50 frames) A! decided somehow to crop the height to 2000 px

Some post in GIMP

Original image is 2400 px wide, this is 750  px.

[Atreta]

hi,

very good image, did you try registax's wavelets after you stacked it?

if not, give it a try. it can help bring out more details, but be gentle with the sliders because it can oversharpen easily.

Frank

[Magnus_e]

Thanks.

Did not realize i could use the wavelets in registax when i stacked in A!

Have to give that a try

[Steve Ward]

Autostakkert has a default frame size of 2000px X 2000px as I recall .

To adjust this to suit a DSLR frame you need to click on the downloaded AS!2 file to open the components.

Then open the 'Config. settings' ,

Scroll down about halfway until you see the "maxWidth" and "maxHeight" boxes ,

Now just delete the 2000 and replace with a numbers to suit , 4000 x 3000  will cover a Canon APC-S at 3888 x 2592.

[Magnus_e]

Just wondering if there is a trick to open a .tiff in registax?

Tried to use the select option and open the stacked .tiff and got this.

[Magnus_e]

Autostakkert has a default frame size of 2000px X 2000px as I recall .

To adjust this to suit a DSLR frame you need to click on the downloaded AS!2 file to open the components.

Then open the 'Config. settings' ,

Scroll down about halfway until you see the "maxWidth" and "maxHeight" boxes ,

Now just delete the 2000 and replace with a numbers to suit , 4000 x 3000  will cover a Canon APC-S at 3888 x 2592.

AS!2 frame size.PNG

Thanks. I'll do that.

[Atreta]

Just wondering if there is a trick to open a .tiff in registax?

Tried to use the select option and open the stacked .tiff and got this.

Capture.PNG

registax doesn't seem to like tiffs for some reason. don't remember if it's 16 bit tiffs or something like that.

try saving as another format and open with it.

Frank

[Magnus_e]

Saved it as a png and it worked

Tried to use the wawlets and got some improvement!

Could maby have been more agressive with it, but did not want to add noise.

Motevates me to revisit the moon when i get my newly ordered Equinox 80

Might also reestack this image to get rid of the cropping (top and bottom)

[Steve Ward]

Registax should have no problem opening 16-bit TIFFs , least-ways it's never failed to open them for me ... 

[Magnus_e]

Registax should have no problem opening 16-bit TIFFs , least-ways it's never failed to open them for me ... 

You are of course right. I did not open the original stack, but a image sligthly edited in GIMP. GIMP only saves as 8-bit TIFF.

Have had a go at redooing all post prossesing.

Stacked in Autostackert

Wawelets and color correction + contrast in Registax

Some edits in GIMP

Having some problems with collor correction as the image looks werry blue in some programs. In GIMP it looks to have a good color balance.

[jimbo747]

Autostakkert has a default frame size of 2000px X 2000px as I recall .

To adjust this to suit a DSLR frame you need to click on the downloaded AS!2 file to open the components.

Then open the 'Config. settings' ,

Scroll down about halfway until you see the "maxWidth" and "maxHeight" boxes ,

Now just delete the 2000 and replace with a numbers to suit , 4000 x 3000  will cover a Canon APC-S at 3888 x 2592.

AS!2 frame size.PNG

Never knew that! Learn something every day on here.

Edit - BTW op, nice images. I never thought about trying wavelets on the moon, I might have to go over some old images and have a go.

[Steve Ward]

Never knew that! Learn something every day on here.

Emil was kind enough to point it out for us ... 

[bob-c]

nice moon shot ,

                          bob.

[Astrosurf]

That's a very good moon pic. I prefer the second image. Try lining up the red, green and blue channels in GIMP to lose the purple tinge - if the sw allows you to do that!.

Alexxx

[Magnus_e]

I used registax to align the RGB, and GIMP to make the dark stuff darker.

I  think this is "more or less" the best i can get from this data.

The data was collected on one of the cheapest scopes one can get, and in daylight with clouds Defenetly going to make a new effort on a cloudless night, when the nights get darker and i get my new scope!

Thanks for all the Moon tips I now have Autostackert set up so that it handles the resolution of my DSLR and know to use registax wawlets on A! stacked images. The picture also looks better when the RGB is aligned.

So here is the final result for now