Autostakkert3! How to process The Planets (Tutorial part 1)

[@lightschange2497]

Why would someone dislike such a useful, clear and instructive video? This is very useful as far as I'm concerned. Well done on a brilliant intuitive video.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thank you very much!

[@rauljimenez8132]

Miserable people.

[@LouisRichard-mh2un]

Aggreed with all of you, and excellent display of attitude too

[@astrotherapist]

I have had Autostakkert for a couple of years now (Version 2.0) and have just been guessing at what to do and how to use it. Your video CLEARLY and SIMPLY explains things in terms that someone like me can understand. Thanks so much! This is VERY useful! I tried some of your tips last night and produced the best picture I ever got of Jupiter, including (for the first time ever) a shot of "The Great Red Spot!" Thank you!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks Paulette and congrats on that red spot capture. Clear skies!

[@Aaron-sn3sn]

What a great step by step guide! Can't wait to use this when my back ordered telescope arrives.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks a lot! Feel free to doenload my video in the video description to follow along. Clear skies!

[@jeffreyvictor3678]

Thank you for taking the time to explain each segment of the processing process!!

[@AstroForumSpace]

You are so welcome!

[@Seafox0011]

This really is the best set of tutorials for these two programmes out there! Your structured - 'no guessing' approach is highly appreciated.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks!

[@adamlong9031]

This video is incredible. I was really wanting to get started in processing images and I heard of these 2 progams and figured it would have a steep learning curve. But this was extremely informative and very helpful. Thank you!

[@AstroForumSpace]

You're very welcome!

[@dcweather7130]

Absolutely brilliant! Easy to run step by step side by side with your own effort. My first ever attempt of video which I did with a Canon R7 4k crop video with a 600mm +1.4x ext. Just guessed the settings, not tracked this time, also about a minutes video - and yay, gone from a fuzzy blob to a sphere with colour and banding and the polar region after some PP in ON-1. Can't wait to try some more sophisticated stuff now. Thanks again.

[@billtracy8865]

Thank you for producing a most informative video. Very clear, concise, and well paced. I learned much from your presentation. Looking forward to your next production.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thank you Bill!

[@davidfottrell8668]

Hi Wido, I thought I knew AutoStakkert, but I learned some very useful things from this video, many thanks!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks David, hope you'll get some good stacked pictures!

[@perry3928]

Wow Wido. Just in jest could you imagine having to do this for everyday cam corder terrestrial video processing. Who ever comes up with the same process for astrophotography will be a very rich person! All kidding aside very well done. Much appreciated. Clear skies.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Haha, true.

[@briankotak403]

Thanks Wido. Very informative. I just bought my first mount and refractor this summer and am learning how to image and process nebulas and galaxies. Will buy an SCT this winter and get into planetary imaging. Your video will be a great resource for me! Dr B from Manitoba, 🇨🇦

[@dadwhitsett]

Excellent tutorial. And thank you for placing chapters. Very helpful!

[@AstroForumSpace]

You're welcome Marc.

[@Mobius3c273]

Wido, what a great tortorial video, thanks a million. I understand Autostakkert much better now. Clears skies for you too :-)

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks Robbie, clear skies!

[@PenOpticon]

Great tutorial! I'm going to have to reprocess some of my Jupiter attempts based on your explanations. Thank you!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Hope you'll get awesome pictures! Clear skies.

[@paulmcgougan]

This is fantastically explained. Thank you!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks Paul!

[@andredellavolpe]

Excellent video, I learned a lot. Now I'm waiting for the Registax video!!!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Wanted to release it this week but it took a bit more effort. I'll definitely release it next week, 21 October, 5 pm CET 😉

[@ferranhervasllinares9010]

Very well explained! Great step by step tutorial! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks so much!

[@siegfriednoet]

Great tutorial Wido, well explained !

[@AstroForumSpace]

Merci!

[@martynh5410]

Hi Wido! Having used AutoStakkert! quite a lot, I still learned a few things from your well made and instructive tutorial. It was very clear. My own personal choice is to stack just the best 25% of the frames but I often capture between 6,000 and 10,000 frames so there are still a lot to work with.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Ah that's great. Yes when you have so many frames at your disposal you can be more selective. I usually end up with 3000 per minute. Need to check, I think there's an issue with my usb connection.

[@martynh5410]

@@AstroForumSpace Last year with the inexpensive Sv305 camera I used it’s highest gain setting which reduces the exposure time per frame. That way I was able to run at around 100 frames per second to create an SER format video in SharpCap. So 10,000 frames takes only about 100 seconds. I converted the SER video to AVI using PPIP software prior to using AutoStakkert! followed by Registax.

[@jimsastro7990]

Very informative, thanks Wido for doing these videos

[@sirmeowcelot]

Thanks for your contribution to the education.

[@AstroForumSpace]

You're welcome!

[@mrdjango2171]

Beautiful and simple to understand 👌👍👌Grtz Django

[@mvanlisdonk]

bedankt voor het maken van deze video!

[@mikegordonbrasov161]

Excelent, Gracias. I wonder: if is not good to stack directly in registax. Or is better stack in autostakert, becouse autostakert is better with stacking and registax is better with later definition on wavelets? And, if we want to keep procesing later in reigstax, we need to save file in TIF format? or it doesnt matter? Thank you and clear sky✌

[@AstroForumSpace]

Hi Mike, yes, you can alzo stack using registax, but autostakkert gives me slightly better results.

[@mikegordonbrasov161]

@@AstroForumSpace thank you verry much👍

[@stick_pl7704]

Really helpful dragging and dropping only very good thanks.

[@book3100]

I needed this. Thanks man

[@AstroForumSpace]

Hi Steve, thanks! Hope you'll get some value out of it.

[@texdoms]

You are the best! Great tutorial.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks!

[@GarnettLeary]

Cropping prior to stacking will speed up things but can be detrimental for certain captures. For example: an astrophotographer using a Dobsonian where the planet crosses the frame. The only advantage cropping gives you is pc processing speed. I would recommend to anyone, especially those not tracking, to crop during final edit. It’s also possible to pick up edge artifacts post stack that you’ll have to clone stamp out whereas had you left the original video dimensions intact… would have been able to easily crop out. Additionally, especially concerning non tracked, I would suggest creating a stabilized version of the video in PIPP prior to using Autostakkert. This would allow a much cleaner read across align points. That’s all I can think to add.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Very useful info, thanks for adding this!

[@ftgm090_finsuth_]

Great informative video!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks!

[@denizbugradag8976]

ahahaha after the video ı will start to find a video for follow you but already you put an video in the description thankssss

[@keithhanssen7413]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@AstroForumSpace]

You're welcome!

[@AstroRef68]

Very helpful video I'm new in this process and i have old astro video camera is called Astrovid planet cam . after I record this program will not accept the Avi format I have or MP4 . my question is is the way how my videos my AVI or MP$ to ASi ? when i try to upload it says uncompress AVI yo ASi !!! uncompress

[@AstroForumSpace]

Try to use pipp to covert your file to another format. Check out my latest video on processing the moon. I discuss pipp after about 4 minutes kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2mQqGajj9SkapI

[@nancyricigliano19]

Great job,Thank you

[@craiglowery4427]

Wonderful video. I currently need to process videos of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Will AS3! process PGN files

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks! I think so, but you can always covert to another format if needed.

[@tomszymanski1755]

Awesome tutorial.

[@fixed1t]

Great video

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks!

[@AstroQuest1]

Nice video Wido! - Cheers Kurt

[@AstroForumSpace]

Thanks Kurt, hope the teaching goes well.

[@AstroQuest1]

@@AstroForumSpace Thanks Wido! So far so good.

[@jgrimm1055]

I have an ASI585 camera, what software do you use to capture video? Do you have a video on that? These processing videos are great thank you!

[@AstroForumSpace]

Yes, I use sharpcap to capture high quality videos of the planets. I have an online planetary imaging course for those who join my channel. I've uploaded 4 lectures and the final one will be finished next week. Cheers!

[@NatarajanGanesan]

This is pure gold

[@colinwoodward6458]

Very good Wido, thank you.

[@adamstuart1964]

Great video-- thank you. One question for you. The Quality Graph is displayed after Analyze is selected. The green line represents highest percentage quality on the top left moving to lowest quality percentage to the bottom right. If I use the mouse to hover over any point in the last 25% (to the right of the 3rd BLUE line in the graph) some of the gray lines have quality of 75-80%. What are these images doing here in the graph? I would think the Quality Graph would show that GREEN line associated with high quality gray lines (images) on the upper left declining to lower quality gray lines to the lower right. In other words, the gray lines are not ordered in Quality. What am I missing?? Thank you.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Adam, I dont have an answer for you, sorry.

[@malanstecker]

Can one use Autostakkert3 to align and stack multiple single frame photos of the moon that are NOT part of a video. I use Asiair Plus which will stack frames in a video, but the maximum resolution is only 2-megapixels, so the moon is clipped. In contrast, full frame images taken in the Preview mode give 9-megapixel images, so the moon is not clipped.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Yes, I believe that can be done using autostakkert. Another option would be Registax6.

[@salonique33]

Hi and many thanks for your great videos. I wanted to ask, is the final picture in tiff format? Checking the outcome of my process, (after using pipp) results a small size tiff image. Is this what Im expecting so then with this image to go and use Registax to process further? Obviously Im doing something wrong? Thanks again. Nikos

[@AstroForumSpace]

No, what kind of input do you have? A video? You can select avi as output.

[@salonique33]

@@AstroForumSpace I'm taking an avi file (video) after PIPP process as a result. Then after the autostakkert process gives me a tif. But is this quite small file to process in Registax6? Thanks for all your support Wido.

[@thefourgrapples2810]

Hi Wido, I hope your family is feeling better. Is it better to use 8 bit or 16 bit when recording the video?

[@AstroForumSpace]

That's a good question. I've done both and I personally think it's a bit of a trade off between getting a higher FPS in 8 bit vs higher quality in 16 bit. I've seen great pictures with 8 and 16 bit files.

[@paulsterx]

This is a great and useful video, thank you! One question, you mentioned over sampling and the rule of thumb of 1 arc second per pixel. How do you know this value? I can’t see it in the window, but may be missing something! Thank you

[@AstroForumSpace]

To calculate Arc Seconds Per Pixel, divide the pixel size by the focal length, then multiply by 206.265

[@paulsterx]

@@AstroForumSpace that’s great, thanks! I’m new to astrophotography and your tutorials are really helping. Been having issues capturing a decent shot of Jupiter or Venus using a 130mm reflector and svbony sv205 camera eyepiece though, everything I get is super lo res and blurry. It’s a massive learning curve! I’m sure I should be getting something better with that setup so no doubt it’s user error!

[@AstroForumSpace]

I recommend 200mm aperture and 2000mm focall length minimum. I'm releasing a detailed course about planetary imagingvon my members channel this month.

[@paulsterx]

@@AstroForumSpace ok that’s worth knowing, thanks

[@refetastro]

I don’t understand when I capture with Asiair the lowest quality I used the planet looks bigger and versa Should be the opposite? And question, what quality format should be good 1080 or 720p?

[@AstroForumSpace]

It's not related to quality but capturing area. At 360p, the asiair is using 360x480 pixels of your camera, so it looks like a zoomed image:. 360p (480 x 360) 480p (640 x 480) 720p (960 x 720; Wide 1280 x 720) 1080p (1440 x 1080; Wide 1920 x 1080). I have a whole online planetary course for folks who joined my channel. I have 4 lectures online and will upload the final one next week.

[@moizahmed1580]

Hi! Thankyou for making such helpful Tutorial. I actually have an issue. My autostakkert doesn't show the alignment points, they just appear when i click for making one. Not like yours which are still appearing while you are not clicking

[@AstroForumSpace]

hi there, maybe re-install the software?

[@shailjasharma510]

Not able to use the analyse button after opening the image, please help

[@AstroForumSpace]

Delete the program and re-install?

[@Mobius3c273]

I have a dilemma, I would like to buy the best equipment for deep sky observing and was thinking buying a mono camera would be best, however I do not want to pay for an expensive subscription to Photoshop, its not as though I wish to sell any images. If I use free software such as Gimp or Siril.. which are obviously more complex and inferior to use, then is it then worth getting a mono camera? I don't like being tied to a subscription and the price/yr for Adobe PS looks ridiculous.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Hi Robbie, There are some alternatives...most people use freeware such as deepskystacker to stack their images..But for processing stacked images most people either use photoshop or pixinsight. Photoshop is subscription-based nowadays, although there may still be some stand-alone packages available. Pixinsight has a commercial license option which is also expensive. You could try other photo processing tools but there's a reason most people use PS and/or Pixinsight...

[@Mobius3c273]

@@AstroForumSpace Ps elements seems better for me. It is not so much the money it is more the fear of being tied to an annual subscription. One other question is since we have alot of rain in the UK and my set up is portable is it difficult to merge LRGB images spread over different dates ie with the set up of camera not identical in each succeeding session. The camera may be orientated differently for example?

[@tommes9537]

thanks for the great video. I think you live in Autostakkert

[@AstroForumSpace]

I tried to upload myself, it didn't work 😉

[@expatca4444]

Thanks man

[@Rocket_browser]

i use my phone for astrophotography and it shoots in mp4 and how can i shoot in ser or avi🥲