Somewhere down south!

[iceman]

Here's 2 images of the moon again from the 31st August.

It's my first 2 images processed using the new Registax 4 beta, and I can tell you it's a dream compared to doing it manually the way I was before.

It's very easy to use, and much much quicker. I used 9 alignment points (of 128px each) on each of these images. No more making the composite in photoshop - the end stacked result is already merged and combined of all yoru alignment points.

The two images were meant to combine to be a mosaic, but i'm missing about 100 pixels inbetween so I can't match them up.

The first image is around the area "Mutus", which is the crater above and to teh right of centre. The second image is centered around Maurolycus.

2x barlow, DMK21AF04, Green filter on 10" dob/EQ platform.

100/1200 frames stacked on each alignment point.

Thanks for looking.

[[1ponders]]

Very nice Mike, especially the second image.


Any ideas when 4 will become publicly available?

[iceman]

Thanks Paul. No, I don't know. Zac said in another thread "soon", but I don't know if that means 1 month, 3 months or 6 months :) Cor has asked for some feedback though, and I've got a few suggestions already but I haven't had much of a run through it yet (only these 2 avi's). Been in meetings all day :/

[[1ponders]]

So how many Jupiter avies are you going to go back over now ;)

[ving]

now you are just showing off! :P

great images mike. cant wait for registax4 to come out :D

[joe_smith]

Very sharp Mike, bet your glad you got your hands on the beta. keep them images comming. are these straight from Registax or did you process them further in some other apps?

[iceman]

Thanks David and Joe.. I sure am happy to be able to use Registax 4, cause i've got about 40 avi's (from the 31st Aug and the 2nd Sep) to go through - this is making it SO much quicker to do each avi.


They follow my usual processing routine for lunar images, that is, soft wavelets in registax, followed by LR deconvolution in AstraImage, followed by high-pass layer filtering (and levels adjust) in photoshop.

The new registax does not make the wavelet processing any different, it just means I don't need to run the same avi through registax 10 times and make the composite in photoshop. It does that for me, much quicker! The end result after stacking, is the composite image after having been aligned, optimised and stacked on each alignment box.

When you do the wavelet processing, you're doing it on the final composite image.

I'll have some more to post later today (they're running through regi4 right now).

[Lester]

Very nice images Mike.