Beginner trouble with ninox / centering the moon

[Jethro777]

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=1uoYoOA52pCdpWrg_5RicQfl9nS eCi8TV

Can you center them? How did you do it?

[bojan]

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 (https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/downloads) (this will, among some other things, center the Moon in the frame).
You can then process this with AutoStakkert (https://www.autostakkert.com/wp/download/) (it is better than Registax, which is not supported any more), and then adjust wavelets in Registax v6.

[sil]

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.

[bojan]

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

[Jethro777]

Thanks, this - especially with the suggestion for PIPP was so helpful.
Telescope? Wish I had one. :D
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.