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Hi Paul
Here's is my rough procedure:
K3CCDTools:
Capture – set the optimum settings and do not make any changes for the series.
Registax:
The only processing I did was applying a saved Wavelet scheme of 1=30, 2=20 to each image.
ImagesPlus:
Used the "Planetary Align" function on each Registax bmp. This is a powerful feature of ImagesPlus which simply aligns, centres and crops all the images.
Corel PhotoPaint 12:
Created a blank, black canvas 36" x 24".
Opened each aligned, centred, cropped bmp from ImagesPlus.
Cropped each Jupiter by eye attempting to crop the same size area each time, then copied/pasted as new object onto blank canvas.
Used “Distribute” and “Align” feature to create evenly spaced columns and rows.
Added text then cropped wasted black space.
Saved as 30% compression jpg.
Fell asleep a twitching wreck.
Good luck with yours Paul – I am NOT envious of the processing journey that awaits you, my brave traveler!
Cheers
Dennis
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