Despite the seeing hanging around 3-4/10 for most of the evening, persevered and just kept glued to my lap top screen only to be rewarded with 10 mins of seeing around 5/10.
RGB split, best 400 frames, Registax with 1.3 x Re-sample, ME Deco, and re-combination, then reduced to 90% of the original and some slight curves adjust.
very nice, just a tad of colour misalignment ie red to the bottom left and blue to the top right, but you can adjust this easily in astra image with the rgb combine and moving the colours around. I usually magnify a bit and move to an edge and adjust.
Sometimes find that registax doesn't do the RGB on the larger image size. Have tried it manualy, but can be a bit tricky. The 12.5" aperture can cirtainly pull in plenty of detail. Look forward to more.
I can't use the "Estimate" RGB lately because I use a smaller alignment window (128px), and the estimate just blows out and fails miserably.
I just do it manually.. blue usually down 2, red usually up 2, blue usually right 1, red sometimes left 1. Depends on the altitude at the time of capture.
Thanks for the comments guys, the RGB shift was an oversight on my part due to late night processing blues. Attached is the same shot RGB Shift"ed" in Registax with Blue channel reduced to 0.95.
Really happy with the SPC900 and the 12.5" at the moment despite the poor seeing from my location which is only 5.5km North of the centre of the Melbourne CBD.
Clear skies!
p.s. Mike, just PM me as to where you would like for me to upload an image/avi for you
