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Originally Posted by Startrek
I was told by someone at Bintel that Regitax is no longer supported and you should be using AutoStakkert now
Any comments ?
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Well Its not being developed anymore and quite old, so some recent camera formats may not be supported. I also dont see the point in people using it after autostakkert as if you enable sharpen it does its own wavelets processing which comes out great. I always find when people do further wavelets etc the result really shows its been overprocessed. Just my 2c.
For planets I run my captures through PIPP first to center the planet and crop to around 500 pixels square since I done want to waste time processing the surrounding empty space, unless I'm interested in showing moons. I get PIPP to process to a SER file debayering as needed too. The SER file I just drop into AutoStakkert to process to PNG files (one unsharpened, and one sharpened, normalise to 75%. Then I just crop for taste and save to jpeg if i want to put online, or often just put the png on my astrobin gallery.
Solar and lunar just dump data into AutoStakkert and again its sharpened output only needs cropping not further processing. (Again MY PERSONAL taste other have THEIR opinions). These are all free options.
For deep sky objects I recommend AstroPixel Processor (NOT free). As a generally beginner friendly processing package and fills the gap between DSS and PixInsight nicely and its defaults give you a 95% perfect result so does good for newbs but also has lots of features to tweak as you learn and the terminology is familiar to that in PixInsight (which is my personal choice as the pinacle for DSO, but AstroArt, Nebulosity, etc are up there too) APP is a good price too and a stable product now (its relatively new, but I wouldn't put it in the same league as PixInsight, AstroArt or Nebulosity, more a notch down like StarTools but not by much and there's no scope control so if thats a consideration I think AstroArt may be the software you are looking for.
I use AutoStakkert for solar system processing, 80% pixinsight and 20% astrpixelprocessor for starscape, nebulae, galaxies etc. sometimes photoshop for cropping, labelling, exporting to JPEG, but not processing.