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Old 17-11-2018, 10:10 PM
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Beginner trouble with ninox / centering the moon

I am taking some pictures of the moon on a tripod with my DSLR.
Yesterday, I seemed to have no trouble using ninox to prepare the files, centering them in a space, ready for registax.
No such luck tonight!
I get an error message "Warning: Image data found near edge (row 1, 1159 pixels). Procesing cancelled.
I have no idea what's wrong.

My method is use Siril to batch convert all .RAW into .FIT, then crop them to a smaller size where the moon is visible okay in each picture.
I then used this command :

C:\ninox\ninox.exe -width=1000 -height=1000 -cutx=700 -cuty=700 -qestimator -qrenumber -outdir=C:\pics\out

which I ran from the c:\pics\in directory.

Here are two of the fit files I'm trying to process.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uo...icQfl9nSeCi8TV

Can you center them? How did you do it?
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Old 20-11-2018, 07:30 AM
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I am not familiar with ninox... and I am not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve (I can't open files in link you provided, it wants me to authorize some zip utility, but I do not want my computer clouded with stuff I do not recognize).


If you want to process images of Moon (taken with telelens and telescope) in Registax, take video file first.

Then you process it with Pipp (this will, among some other things, center the Moon in the frame).
You can then process this with AutoStakkert (it is better than Registax, which is not supported any more), and then adjust wavelets in Registax v6.

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Old 20-11-2018, 07:54 AM
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PIPP is pretty much all there is for centering the moon though its not perfect, great on planets but moon not so much. I usually use Hugin which is for panoramas but I can at least use control points to get a set of aligned images outputed from it.
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Old 20-11-2018, 08:00 AM
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OK, I managed to download and open image in Registax.
Moon is small.. and not very well in focus, also resolution is low, and there are some strange artefacts (from conversion?).


I suggest you try and use telescope, and place camera where your eye would be.

Then try to take video and process as briefly described earlier
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Old 20-11-2018, 07:03 PM
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Thanks, this - especially with the suggestion for PIPP was so helpful.
Telescope? Wish I had one.
Video mode via my camera blows out the moon somehow and I can't adjust it. Oh well. I think I will give the moon a miss for now, until I have something suitable to do it with.
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