I've posted a few planetary shots up before and my steps to producing them is the same. I take several minutes video capture in movie crop mode, process and convert to AVI in Pipp, stack in AutoStakert then adjust the tif file with wavelets in Registax. As with most of the saved files from Registax, I invariably adjust contrast, colour, saturation, cropping/resizing and further denoising in Photoshop.
It's amazing the detail Registax can exude from such a soft image and also how different a result you can achieve by subtle adjustments to the sliders. You can reprocess the same file and come up with a completely different result - sometimes better, sometimes worse. Half the fun of astrophotography is the post processing on the computer, my wife does not agree!
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