what do i use to stack SER files from Sharpcap?

[blinky]

I have the free version of SharpCap and whilst messing about with it tonight I thought I might as well capture some Lunar data since I usually always do deep sky.  Just found out its in SER format, do I open that in Registax or is that too old skool nowadays and there is some funky new planetary/lunar stacking software available?

[discardedastro]

I'm not a lunar/planetary imager but when I've tried then usually the workflow is totally different to DSOs with different software. SER's basically a video format, since the overhead of all the separate image files adds up quick with fast capture for lucky imaging. I've tried using:

• PIPP to pre-process the video into the best frames (which then yields tiffs etc) and clean some things up
• Autostakkert! or similar to do stacking - Registax can be used for this too, I think, though I've never tried it

[Davey-T]

SER Player can be used to view your videos.

Dave

[Buzzard75]

Use PIPP to align the frames of a SER and output an AVI file. Use Autostakkert to analyze the AVI and stack the best frames into a TIFF. Put the TIFF into Registax and play with the wavelets to bring out the details. Put that file in your image processing software of choice for final processing.

Edited September 16, 2019 by Buzzard75

[Merlin66]

As an alternative to Registax wavelets, I found ImPPG very effective. It has a good tutorial.

http://greatattractor.github.io/imppg/index.html

 

[blinky]

Excellent,thanks folks, will see how I get on with this. Not processed a lunar image for years!

[MilwaukeeLion]

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