Image Processing

I use Astrovideo, or K3CCDTools, for image capture. I also use an old version (4.1) of Paint Shop Pro for various processing tasks. Most recently I have been using Registax for aligning, stacking and processing. For some of the early work I did I used Astrostack.
For the planets I generally use K3CCDTools to take AVI's of planets. These AVI's can then be processed using K3CCDTools own software, or the AVI can be read by Registax.
I am working on a help file for taking images and the subsequent image processing required - this will be posted here as a pdf file when it is ready.
There is plenty of advice to be found on how to process images captured with a web cam. The general principle is to stack multiple images to reduce the noise level. It is also possible, and advisable to take dark frames.

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