My second attempt at planetary imaging, definitely getting better. Previously I had used too many alignment points when stacking, generating artifacts and limiting how much I was able to sharpen the image. This time I had no artifacts and was able to sharpen a lot more.
Acquisition:
- Skies: Bortle 5
- Seeing: poor
- Video: 10 minutes continuous
Equipment:
- Skywatcher 10 inch GoTo Dobsonian
- ZWO ASI 224 MC
- ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector
- Televue Powermate 5x
- Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow filter
Processing
- Planetary Imaging PreProcessor: image centering, cropping, frame rejection
- WinJUPOS: video de-rotation
- AutoStakkert 3: stacked best 70% of frames
- Registax: wavelets sharpening
- Photoshop: rotate, crop, levels, curves, smart sharpen
- Topaz Gigapixel AI: upscale 4x