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Moon Stacking troubles

Started by beckemd, 06/06/2012 02:02PM
Posted 06/06/2012 02:02PM Opening Post
Here is a link https://picasaweb.google.com/110636644300222230697/June62012?authuser=0&feat=directlink to my moon shots on picasa web albums. ANyone able to stack these for a better view? I've tried over and over with registax 5.1 without success... If you do it, would you be kind enough to share your methods or even...a post of the finished product?
Ty in advance
Dave in Chicago
Posted 06/07/2012 11:15AM #1
Dave, I gave it a try. Registax seemed to have trouble chasing the moon around in the frames, so I cropped each image first so that the moon is roughly centered in each frame. My crop was a 400 x 400 px square, so I used the 256 size alignment box. If I centered the moon in the box, it resulted in some of the images falling outside the stack. I'm not sure why. I tried setting the alignment box off center a little, so that a good part of the moon was completely in the box, and that seemed to work. For the image here, I also sharpened the final stack and adjusted the color a little. Let me know if this helps, or if you need more info.

Steve

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Posted 06/26/2012 12:28AM #2
Ty for the attempt at stacking the data! Please. Couldqu please send me the final tiff/jpg? I want to see how much better than a single it is...
Dave in Chicago
Posted 07/15/2012 03:49AM #3
I am imaging with the new 60da, just starting to use it. It seems I am overexposing my moon shots. Can you share your camera settings please.
Ed