you have got to be happy with that. let me guess.... a litttle extra spring to the step.... a sideways glance to see if anyone is watching....nope, i'm all alone..........you beeauty you shout as you leap into the air and punch the sky...!!!
well done, now it is just getting ready for great seeing nights, making sure the collimation is spot on etc etc
Last edited by acropolite; 22-01-2006 at 11:34 AM.
Dave, it's uncanny you quoted me exactly when I saw the first images on the screen!
I'm having a bit of a problem today with Registax. Our problem is: We saved a previous selection of frames as a project file so we could return later to cull the frames further to 50 or 60 of the very best frames for a stacking.
Once we choose the reference frame and set quality filter parameters and click align the process keeps stopping around the 89% complete point without any error message. It just stops?
It appears to have "ranked" our loaded selection of best frames in the frame list. But when we cull the list further it freezes again after clicking on "Limit".
Anyone had the same problems? Any help would be great.
hmmm, i do not trust registax to stop mid stream etc. you can output the fslected images into an avi movie at stack time, but generally i always start again. i have played with the projects, but it does seem to do what I expect it to do???
We had the lowest quality setting in quality estimate set at 85%. So, we obviously dumped a lot of frames.
Where would you have put the % at? Depends on the frames, I know, but it looked like there were plenty more we could have used for stacking.
Still learning this Registax business.
No mars for you, mate. Don't have a 4 or 5x Powermate and it was hard enough getting saturn on the CCD chip at 2.5x
Would be happy for you to have a crack at the image. Would you like the Avi..? Or would you prefer a TIFF of the stacked 139 frames ready for wavelets?
Hey Matt, you can really go to town with Saturn in terms of frames you collect and stack. Because it's so far away you can run long avi sequences without rotational smearing - I typically do at least 200 sec and get 2000 frames, but occasionally will join two together. I try and get 1000 frames for actual stacking and feel you need around 600 to really overcome grain issues. It's all a bit suck and see with each avi though so why don't you just set the quality for your to end up with around 600 frames and just see what happens - you might be pleasantly surprised... or it might be worse.
I'm in the dialup doldrums ao can't take your avi, but if you e-mail over a TIFF or BMP I'll see if I can tweak any extra out of it.
Worked a few wavelets. Do you think it's improved. I think there's more detail in the polar hood?
You judge.
I think so, if it's the one on the left, grain seems better and banding clearer. There seems a bit more red on the edge which suggests you need to align the colour channels - have you done this in wavelets; if you haven't just select the tab on the right edge that says RGB align and press "estimate" and it should do the trick.
My Best Saturn So Far
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