Partial Planetary Processing Routine v5

Planetary Processing Routine

by Michael A. Phillips

1) Acquistion

1. TBD

2) Prep

3) Scripted VirtualDub Job Creation

1. Creates .avi -> .bmp job for VirtualDub

1. Download script here for windows: http://www.ericphelps.com/scripting/samples/VirtualDub/index.html

2. Load job in Vdub

4) Ninox Sorting

1. In Ubuntu linux with wine run:

1. Bash scirpt to run ninox

1. wine /Astronomy/Software/Ninox/ninox-2.29/ninox -width=180 -height=180 -cutx=440

-cuty=440 -qestimator -renumber=last -overwrite /Astronomy/2-Scratch/$1

2. Sort by rgb capture via bash script

Bash script that sorts LRGB image series into sub-folders for organization and processing - http://www.mediafire.com/?2jmfkmxmnxe

5) Registax

1. Drag and Drop from source (sometimes multiple drag & drops)

2. Align to taste

3. Optimize (not Optimize & Stack)

1. Reference with mild wavelets (3:10.5 , 4:15.2)

2. Mitchell Resample 2.0 for most work

4. Stack

1. Move slider from top to bottom to pick either:

1. Hotspot near hockey stick of bad seeing

2. 400-500 best

5. Wavelets

1. Mars:

1. Chris Go – like scheme

1. Initial layer = 2

2. 1:13.5 , 2:12.5 , 3:12.5

2. Save as 16-bit .tiff

6) AstraImage

1. Load raw mono channels one at a time (R-CG.tif)

2. Typical settings for my C8i, DMK21AF04 at Mitchell 2.0 resample are

1. Mars

1. Curve 2.0

2. Iterations 5.0

Clean up routine

A. Move final processed images from Sorted: 4-TempStacked to Save: 5-FinalSaves

B. Move .zip's from Sorted: 2-Scratch to Save: 3-Zipped-Ninoxes

C. Move / Delete .avi's from Transit: 1-Captures to Temp: 4-Captures-Sorted

D. Verify that Sorted: 2-Scratch is completely removed

E. Add relevant stats and comparison charts to Save: 5-FinalSaves