This is another lpi photo using an lx90 wth meade x2 barlow behind the diagonal to get x3. Seeing was not good as was observed when focussing on castor using the lpi/laptop screen. The stars image danced around. Despite this got some reaonable photos after processing selected images.
philip
Sorry to chime in Phillip but thought I could help Mike answer this question as I seem to do a lot of processing of Jupiter. Most of this information originally came from Gary Beal who helped me out Early this year.
With waveletting I have found that image brightness plays an important part. Try to keep your images reasonably bright during capture. Additionally image when seeing is good, good seeing should show up on the screen with the blue barges (they are located on the northern eq belt) being visible as a minimum. Nights of better seeing with show more detail and the image will be very steady. I have only seen one night like this in the last 6 months, and I image almost every night that I can. I need the practice. Which brings me to another point, image often, you might miss out on a great night. If you have a partner that can lead to trouble though.
Now assuming you have the good image, process in Registax3 and do the alignment but do not do automatic. Once the Avi or BMPs are alignment, take the best 200-400 images and uncheck the rest. This way you have got the best images to work with.
Do the optimise and stack and then get to waveletting. I always do estimate RGB shift first. Then I hit the auto processing box and use wavelet 3 first. Just gently slide it out until you see detail start to come out. Now go a little further and see where the image starts to look overprocessed. This is strickly a matter of taste. But I like my images to look smoother these days. Adjust to what you like. Now use wavelet 4 once you are happy with three, don't go too radical. and then finally 2. Good avi's or BMP don't need much more waveletting than that. You can experiment with the other wavelet sliders, but I have found that this is a good general guide. Dont forget to have the step set to 1 just above the wavelet sliders.
I am sure there are other techniques that people will tell you, but it took me 6 months to work this out and I am happy to pass on the info to save you many hours of processing.
Finally, as Gary said to me, each image is different and requires different settings, so experiment and be creative and the results will come for you. When you get good at this part then you can try things like resampling in Registax3.
thanks for the tips paul i'll continue to experiment , and thanks for all the encouragement everyone else . i think i'm at last getting the hang of the lpi an using registax. more practise and i'll improve.
philip
