I have finally decided to try run my first (and only) Avi of Venus through Registax & P/Shop.
I took the Avi 2 weeks ago and the final video is absolutely disgusting! The Planet is a mass of glowing light and dances all over the place, so I stuck it to the side as a bad image.
Well, I gave it a go at processing and was pleasantly suprised!!!!
When I zoom in I can actually see surface features but the image is heavily pixelated, so I have left it as a small image to make it a bit crisper. Not sure what the dark image on the right of the Planet is?
I will never discard a wobbly dancing Avi again!!!!
GS f5 12" Dob, no tracking, TouCam Pro, Prime Focus, Registax of 180 frames, PhotoShop. Brightness down to 20%, contrast up to 60%.
Transparency: 10/10 - Seeing: 8/10. Fairly windy, Temp: 18 degrees.
I am currently transferring the Avi Movie from the lappy to the desktop to give it another go in Registax in the desktop. See if it makes any difference. I will post it when done!
I have just reprocessed in Registax on this desktop pooter (which really shouldn't make any difference) and it came out heaps better!
I will post an extreme close up which did not pixelate very much and you can see the surface features I was talking about. I hope it works when I press 'Post'.
That's what I mean, you only picked 20! How did you pick them out. When I run Registax it runs and stacks the whole Avi. I don't know how to delete particular frames.
I am also thinking that what I called surface features in the pic above are probably some sort of effect from waveletting. I had a look at some Venus photos and they don't even look similiar, so they are probably not really surface features at all.
Pity, coz I got excited when they showed up!
Last edited by ballaratdragons; 16-12-2005 at 01:35 AM.
Hi Ken, when you run Registax what quality percent are you using. I vary this and just keep repeating the alignment phase and see how many frames it ends up selecting. If you only want a few then set it high 85-90% and see what you get. Once you've gone through the Optimise step and moved on to the stack phase (before hitting the button to stack) you also have some tabs at far right. The stack graph you can grab the sliders and pull then down or left and thus cut out more frames - the bottom bar will tell you how many. There is also a stack list tab (I think) where you can then manually select and deselect frames. The key to accessing all this is to do one stage at a time, eg just "optimise" not the "optimise and stack" button otherwise it will just charge on ahead.
Failing that you may have seen that thread I started recently on better planetary images through using Virtual Dub. This allows you to scan through your avis manually and delete bad frames and then resave for stacking in registax. Iceman posted a link in that thread to the Virtual Dub site where you can download it for free.
Nice Venus shot you got there. You might want to try a shorter exposure time, not
sure how you do that on a webcam. But it does look a lil over exposed and that can
cause pixcelation. I very rearly use registax if at all, but I do remember like Robert
above has mentioned you can de-select images when you first load your series of
images or avi.
thats a fine crescent 
