Hi all,
This might be my first post in this forum - I've been very focused on DSO CCD imaging over the past couple of years. I have kept an eye on solar system imaging, though, and played on and off for a few years with a SAC-IV with very limited success.
Anyway, after a Mewlon 210 showed up on my doorstep last month for adoption (Mew!), and with this year's Mars apparition coming up, I thought I'd exercise this aspect of imaging again (best part is, I don't need to be up all night capturing precious few photons!)
My SAC-IV decided to have a contest with my concrete patio (the patio won), so I thought I'd give the Celestron Neximage a shot. This image represents the best of about 100 frames from a 30-second video (lots of dropped frames - I need USB 2.0!) stacked and processed in Registax.
For Registax processing, I'm way low on the learning curve with that. For this image, I tried the approach of an aggressive setting on Wavelet 6 (about 60), half that in 5, half again in 4, etc.
Comments and processing tips appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
This might be my first post in this forum - I've been very focused on DSO CCD imaging over the past couple of years. I have kept an eye on solar system imaging, though, and played on and off for a few years with a SAC-IV with very limited success.
Anyway, after a Mewlon 210 showed up on my doorstep last month for adoption (Mew!), and with this year's Mars apparition coming up, I thought I'd exercise this aspect of imaging again (best part is, I don't need to be up all night capturing precious few photons!)
My SAC-IV decided to have a contest with my concrete patio (the patio won), so I thought I'd give the Celestron Neximage a shot. This image represents the best of about 100 frames from a 30-second video (lots of dropped frames - I need USB 2.0!) stacked and processed in Registax.
For Registax processing, I'm way low on the learning curve with that. For this image, I tried the approach of an aggressive setting on Wavelet 6 (about 60), half that in 5, half again in 4, etc.
Comments and processing tips appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
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