My processing technique for Saturn and Jupiter

[Rocket Pooch]

K3CCD and Registax Processing.

Firstly try to use F20-30 for the capture ratio of your telescope.

Please before you go onto to do this ensure your AVI's has the following: -

Your AVI should contain as many frames as possible upto 5 minutes for Saturn and no more than 90-120 seconds for Jupiter.  

Saturn will work ok at 10FPS, for Jupiter use 5FPS, there more detail in Jupiter.

Mars apparently you can go to minutes for mars at 10FPS.

Ensure the planet on the AVI do not touch the edge of the CCD, or you will be manually aligning it for ages.

Anyway assuming you have an AVI as above and you had collimated the telescope properly and it was in focus etc do the following.  

In K3CCD Tools 2 run the semi auto process and select the top 70% ish of frames and do a 2x process with fine alignment.

When you have finished the process export the results as both a BMP (just in case) and 16bit FITS.

Go into Registax and select the FITS files for processing, they have a _r, _g & _b suffix denoting the colour of each file.  Hit align and stack button in Registax.  

Now process the wavelet filter quite heavily (up to 70 decreasing) on slides 6, 5 & 4 and a little on 1 & 2 (up to 10).

Go into final and adjust the colour balance and then either save and finish in photo shop or something similar or resize to 50% in Registax and save as the final result.

If you save for finishing in Photoshop then you will be able to remove any ears or slight edging caused by K3CCD.

There you go simple.