Serene photo stacking software manual#

I still have some recordings left to process from the night before, and IвЂ™m really curious to see the changes in the results from one day to the next as the clouds on Mars can be pretty dynamic!ДЇor this recording I used the ASI120MM monochrome camera (as usual) and some Baader color filters. Here is my latest result: Mars imaged on May 17 under pretty good conditions (well, for Dutch conditions of course). The other recordingsВ just werenвЂ™t anywhere as useful.ДЄnyway by far my best Jupiter this season, and IвЂ™m quite pleased with the result. I had recorded for several hours at a time, but in the end I combined only the bestВ 4 red channels, and 2 green and blue channels each, that all happened to be imagedВ withinВ about a 25 minute time period of more stable conditions. But it does take forever though.В The seeing wasnвЂ™t that great really, I only stacked about 30-40% of the frames for each recording, but the transparency was good and being able to use this many stacks really helps to bring out the finer detailsВ and contrasts. I like this semi-manual approach, as it gives you lots of control, and involves lots of fiddling around with image processing software. ForВ this image I let WinJUPOS derotate each slightly sharpened stack I had selected to the same reference, and then I manually recombined all of thoseВ again in Photoshop, taking only the best (parts of) each stack. Processing this image all in all took aboutВ 5 hours, as I wanted to combine as many images as I could using WinJUPOS.

Serene photo stacking software manual#

After half an hour into imaging I had to rush back inside and fix some manual declination controls I added just hours before the recording session started вЂ“ basically I had to applyВ a bit ofВ lock bond to make sure the bolt stayed fixed when I turned the declination control вЂ“В butВ other than that I had everything I wanted: decent tracking capabilities and aВ possibility to correct for my poor polar alignment. I hadВ been without an equatorialВ platform for my Dobson forВ a few weeks, but I was just in time to have a new platform more or less in working condition.