- #JUPITER AND REGISTAX 6 TUTORIAL UPDATE#
- #JUPITER AND REGISTAX 6 TUTORIAL FULL#
- #JUPITER AND REGISTAX 6 TUTORIAL SOFTWARE#
This gives you much more control over the sharpening and noise reduction process of your picture.
Each of these layers can be sharpened and/or denoised individually, without necessarily affecting the other layer. A simple way to describe wavelets is that Registax divides your one-dimensional picture into six separate layers. People often say that the wavelets tab is where the magic happens in Registax, and they would be right. Select “RGB Align” in the Functions tab on the top right Position the green square around the planet and click on “Estimate” Open “RGB Balance” and click “Auto balance” Check Histogram and if needed, adjust “contrast” and “brightness” sliders Wavelets Tab As our stacked picture is bright enough, we will leave the histogram sliders and the brightness and contrast sliders to in the default setting. Take care not to stretch the histogram to a point where the RGB lines do not appear to touch the bottom line of the histogram, as you want to avoid clipping your data. You can also adjust the contrast and brightness of the picture by dragging the contrast and brightness sliders, or the related up and down arrows, on the right of your screen. If your picture appears to be a bit too dark or too bright, you could adjust the midpoint of the histogram by left-clicking and dragging the midpoint on the slider to the left for a brighter picture, or to the right for a darker picture. As a final check, it is also good practice to open up the histogram function and check the log-based graph. After this is done, click the “RGB balance” function again to close the window. By simply clicking on “Auto balance”, your picture will be color balanced. As a next step, we will open up the “RGB balance” window, which will show you a histogram panel with RGB colors. Clicking on RGB align again will close the RGB align window. You’ll notice that the estimation is done when the slider on the bottom left shows “100%” and a message appears with “RGB ALIGNMENT” done. Depending on the speed of your processor and the image size, this may take some time. After you have positioned the square, click on “Estimate”. You can also reposition the square to encompass the entire planet by left-clicking in the middle of the square, and holding down the left mouse button while dragging the square around.
This can be done by left-clicking the corners of the square and holding the left mouse button while dragging your square. You should resize that square so that it encompasses the whole planet. Note that a green square appears on your image once you’ve clicked on RGB align. In order to do so, we need to open up the RGB align function by clicking on “RGB align” in the “Functions” window, towards the top-right of the screen. Nevertheless, it is always good practice to re-check the color balance in Registax. If you already used the “RGB align” option in Autostakkert, your picture should already have a good color balance. Drag and drop stacked picture of Jupiter Set stretch intensity levels to “No” and “Make my choice the default” Set Stretch FIT/TIFF to “No” in the settings tab RGB align and RGB balance
#JUPITER AND REGISTAX 6 TUTORIAL FULL#
With the image visible in Registax, I always check the “show full image” box which will adjust the size of the picture to fit the view window in Registax. Another way to make sure Registax doesn’t automatically stretch your pictures is by clicking on the “settings” tab and set the Stretch FITT/TIFF to “No”. Just click “no” and check “make my choice default”, as we are going to process this picture ourselves. If you use Registax for the first time, the program will probably show a textbox with the option to “Stretch intensity levels”. After updating and installing the software, we can open up the image created in Autostakkert by simply dragging and dropping the image into the main window of Registax.
#JUPITER AND REGISTAX 6 TUTORIAL UPDATE#
Note that you should download Registax 6.1 first before you can download and update Registax to its latest version, v6.1.08. You can download Registax from this website. Downloading Registax and opening a stacked image It is my hope that with these tutorials I can contribute as well.
#JUPITER AND REGISTAX 6 TUTORIAL SOFTWARE#
It’s awesome to see that developers from my own country have created two free software tools to process the planets which are being used across the globe: Autostakkert3! and Regista圆. Before starting this tutorial, I quickly want to mention that Registax is free software created by an international group of motivated software developers with Cor Berrevoets from The Netherlands as the main developer.