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Originally Posted by chiaroscuro
They are really nice Bret. Have you got a book or website that you use to help learn the processing, or have you just used trial and error.
I'll give registax a go and get the older version of Photoshop as you suggest - if I can produce an image like yours, I'd be very happy.
What ISO, exposure length, subs and darks etc.? Very impressive!
Cheers
Luke
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Thanks Luke.
Images were taken for 1/200s @ ISO100 via backyardEOS.
Took something like 80-100 exposures and let registax choose the best ones to stack. Took 10 darks but didn't use them.
This was a good read to get started with Registax
http://www.astronomie.be/registax/previewv6paul.html
After that I stumbled across this website
http://www.mikesalway.com.au/how-to-...ed-moon-photo/ while looking for more registax tutorials more related to the moon.
I already had the images so I just skipped to the pre-processing section.
I used Digital Photo Professional to do a batch conversion from RAW to TIFF files.
I used 40 alignment points during alignment in Registax6. I just tweaked the suggested sharpening settings to better suit the image I had (I only needed to do very fine adjustments).
Just fiddle a bit, you may be able to push them even more, or have to reduce them slightly, but I found them to be a good starting point.
The same goes for the photoshop bit, adjust as needed. I didn't have such a harsh white edge on my image so I didn't expand by quite as many pixels. I stopped the Photoshop processing after the curves section as I prefer the neutral look more, but that's just me.
I haven't got any books that I can suggest as I mainly rely on trial and error and researching via google and forums if I just can't get something to work. Thankfully there are lot of nice folk that have shared their knowledge via youtube tutorials and other websites/forums like IceInSpace.
I hope that all makes sense and I haven't missed anything important.
Feel free to PM if you have any questions and hopefully I'll be able to help
Cheers,
Bret