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Originally Posted by MGTechDVP
Unless you want to give up your secret in the images you capture in the way of describing your work flow... :-)
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Hi Mariusz - no secrets - everything I have learned has been through the sharing on IIS.
1. Cool your scope optics to ambient - any way you can - peltiers, fans or even a domestic a/c!! You need a thermometer on your scope that shows inside/outside temp
2. Collimate and focus
3. Mono cameras giver better results but colour can be good as well when the seeing is great.
4. Wait for good weather and good seeing - even the best scope and imaging set up wont work if the seeing is poor
5. Capture up to 2-3 minutes - either per channel or in your case per AVI. A bit of debate about this but I live in Melbourne where the seeing is always variable so I need as many frames as I can get.
5b - then use Autostakkert2 with multi point alignment which inherently will derotate your image - some fuzziness on the edges but I perosnally don't mind - others might be more fussy - you have colour AVI's so you could even derotate the whole AVI in WinJupos first if you like with a longer say 5 minute capture or put together 3 AVIS's x 2 mins - same with mono.
6. Registax 6 - debate on sliders - maybe try last 3 sliders to full with de-noising which is my approach.
7. Astra image deconvolution - ME Gauggian 7 iterations @ 1.5 twice works for me plus a bit of sharpening if seeing was good.
8. Into Winjupos for combining and de rotation of RGB.
9. Into photoshop for any contrast, curves, exposure and noise reduction.
All this takes about 15 minutes per avi at most. I can tell quickly after Autostakkert2 and Registax 6 if it should go further with processing based on the seeing.
Have fun and clear skies.
John K.