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Originally Posted by Outcast
Viewing conditions here in FNQ a little hazy with the temperature up a little & the humidity starting to rise.
Finally discovered how to use the focusing zoom aid in EOS utility live view but, still not happy with the focus & sharpness of my images.
Visual views are much sharper so, clearly my focusing efforts need some work. Perhaps a Batinov Mask is in the near future.
Images taken with Canon EOS 1100d (unmodded) & 2.5x Powermate.
Jupiter is a stack of 16 x 1/80 sec images at ISO 1600. Images stacked in Affinity Photo.
Saturn is a single shot at 1/20 sec, ISO 1600. Tried to stack multiple images but, it just turned out a mess.
I have a video capture of Saturn that I might try & process tomorrow; need to download some software to separate the video images prior to attempting a stack.
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Carlton, Autostakkert is a free download that does this. It needs an .AVI file though so you have to convert your camera's native video format to .AVI first. Download (for free) Pipp software and load your camera video files into this, it will output a .AVI file for you. Stick to the default settings first and have a play around later, that way your first attempt using the software should give you a reasonable result. Autostakkert outputs a .TIF file (default) which you open up in Registax (again, it's free), you then play around with the wavelet sliders to get some detail and sharpness from what looks like a fuzzy image - this part is fun and you'll be amazed at what can be extracted to produce a really nice image.
Good luck and by the way, they're pretty good images you've produced from the method you've been using but video is the way to go.