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Old 26-05-2012, 12:13 PM
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Pretty simple really Chris. After stacking in Autostakkert, I take it into Registax & do the usual thing with waveletts & save the image. I then stretch the heck out of the same image using contrast/brightness until I see any available moons. I save that image as well (renamed). Remember, by all accounts both are the same image, only one is stretched & renamed.

I then open both images up in Paint.net, my editing program. I carefully copy one moon at a time with a circular mask, & place (paste) them on the normal image. Paint.net now takes into account that they are the same image in a positional aspect & auto-places each moon exactly in the correct position as in the stretched image. Once I've placed all the moons in their positions, I'll mask them all (excluding the planet) & brighten them up a tad if necessary & blur them out using a Gaussian blur mask.

End of DBK618 lesson #1 - That'll be 50 bucks mate
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