Registax

[spendrey]

I took 5 AVI's of Jupiter last night and then processed the best 2 in Registax to obtain my first ever images. I'll post one as soon as I can upload it (can't access my ISP from work). I'm fairly happy with the result for a first attempt but am pretty sure that I could have got more out of the image if I knew what I was doing in Registax.
Here is the process I'm using, is it correct?
1) I get rid of the images at the beginning and end of the AVI which do not show a full disc
2) I set the lowest quality to 20% and Align
3) Optimize
4) Stack (Where should I put the slide arrow on the graph with the red and blue lines before stacking?)
5) Wavlet processing (just a matter of sliding the 6 arrows up and down until the image looks good, is this the best method?)
6) Save final image.
Am I doing this in the right order? Sometimes it seems to me that the image I get after step 3 is better than the image after step 4?
Last night I set the capture program to 5 FPS, and set both Gamma and Gain to quite low, is that right?
Thanks for any help and I'll post the image tonight!

[Rocket Pooch]

Sounds ok with the exception of the quality level.  I believe people normally set to 75% to start with, also remember with Jupiter at 5FPS there is no point in stacking more than about 500 individual frames or the planets rotation will fuzz the image.

Have a look at the tutorial; the settings for FFT and the quality filter band are displayed there.


P.S. How are the diffraction spikes?

[spendrey]

Thanks Chris I'll have another play around with it later.

No diffraction spikes this time either!
Thanks for all your help.