K3CCDTools

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

It's $39 US Narayan. Let's see if this link takes you to the right page for registration

http://www.pk3.org/K3CCDTools/

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Damn didn't work to the right page. Ok...when you get to the main page click on "Download" when the new page opens you'll see a blue registration link under "Trial Version" in the K3CCDTools 2 disclaimer box at the top. When the registration page opens you'll see the cost about 4 lines from the top

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Read the registration page carefully . You are entitled to load the program onto two computers only. The thing is though, you have to apply for a second registration Key for the second computer as each installation develops a unique serial number. It's not a problem unless you do what I did and fully installed it on a computer I wasn't going to use for astrophotography (I didn't read the fine print carefully enought). I therefore wasted an installation.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

thanks for that
Narayan

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Good luck with it. It's certainly my most used program when I'm out there. That and DSLR Focus

[davidpretorius]

Originally Posted by asimov

I must say I'm not overly impressed with most registax results, I can stack using different methods & when I go & review the frames that it's stacked I will have to go in & manually chuck out another 40-50% of those frames anyway. Perhaps I don't know how to use it properly, but I've been stacking and stacking and stacking for weeks & I'm not very far advanced at all.

bird may have to jump in, but aligning in reigistax is sharpness of detail not shape. I find saturn has beautiful shape and it has been sorted to the worst end and yet more detailed ones with the rings everywhere are towards the best???

hence hand picking!

there is that fft setting or something that may filter shape????

[asimov (John)]

Yup...that's what happens with my saturn's too. I'm going to try to make my avi's smaller (about 1000-1200 frames) & hand pick I reckon.

[rumples riot]

I find that if you use gradient and a quality level around 80-85% you will get a nice frame selection. This alleviates hand selection.

[Robert_T]

Originally Posted by asimov

And while were on the subject of stacking, I've just completed my 1st one in K3....Ummm, I can't seem to find any wavelett section or anything like that to further process the stack. The final image (saturn) looks very fuzzy with no grain noise, a bit like registax after the initial stack before going into the wavelett section.

Hi Asi - there's no wavelets as such but it does have a powerful unsharp masking functionality that produces good images - from memory I think you have to click on the histogram button after running the planetary wizard you can play around with the colour channels there but at right is unsharp masking - threshold doesn't seem to do anything but the other two do - play around and see what happens.

cheers,

[asimov (John)]

Hi Paul. Unfortunately theres no gradient in the version I'm stuck with using at present (V2)...Bring on that darn memory stick so I can transfer my AV's to the main computer & use the latest version!

Yes Robert, I found that section last night. It did the trick but I feel registax does a better job after stacking..only because I'm not too bad at adjusting the waveletts these days..