Sold on Avistack

[Paul Haese]

Well I am sold on Avistack. Downloaded it tonight and used it on my recent solar data which was pretty ordinary overall.

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As you can see the amount of detail gained is really quite enormous and I shudder to think of the data I have thrown away lately without trying to process it with this program.

So what are your thoughts?

I am going to use this more often.

[Astrobserver99 (Rob)]

I tried it on some old Jupiter Data. The results were similar to what I get with K3CDD and Registax. It's a lot easier to use than Registax. Would like to see a 2x drizzle mode though.

[sheeny (Al)]

I had my first play with Avistack the other night. I must say it was pretty ordinary data to feed into it, but I seemed to get much beter results from avistack than registax.

I do feel very comfortable using registax however. I thinkI know it pretty well. I almost gave avistack away after my first attempt, but fortunately on my second try I got good results.

I think I've missed something though... I can't see how to limit the number of frames stacked based on quality. The manual says the number in brackets is the quality limit, but no matter what I try so far it stacks the lot!

Al.

[michaellxv (Michael)]

This looks very promising. Only been trying to image for a couple of months so still on a steep learning curve.

Re-worked some AVI's through AviStack and came up with a much better result than I was getting with Registack. Where I previously came up with rubbish I can now see detail.

The workflow through Avistack seems more natural and easier to follow.

[Paul Haese]

I am unconvinced this will be any good for planetary work. Lunar and Solar yes, but planetary no. I will continue to use Registax for planetary but I will use Avistack on my lunar and solar work.