AstroSurface: Can this single program replace Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop?

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For the past several years I have used three different computer programs - Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop - to process my planetary and lunar images. But recently, thanks to one of my subscribers, I learned about a free program called AstroSurface that allows me to replace all three with one simple, straightforward, free program. In this video, I will show you how I processed three different images of Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon with this program and then give you my honest evaluation of what I liked and what I didn’t like about it. If you are a user of AstroSurface, I would like to encourage you to leave some of your tips or suggestions in the replies. I very new to this program, so I’d love to hear more about the workflow that others are using to process their images or how to use some of the features that I did not cover in this video. If you enjoy this kind of content, please consider subscribing to my channel and helping me out by clicking on the like and share buttons.

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@nancyricigliano19 2 года назад

Hi Joe, you did great pronouncing my name. I'm so happy I mentioned AstroSurface to you. You actually showed me a couple of things I didn't know about the program. There aren't many thorough tutorials out there. I'm going to share this with a few of my astronomy groups and Instagram. Well done!!

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Thanks so much Nancy. I definitely want to learn more about it. There are alot of features that I want to spend some time and use. If you have any suggestions I'd love to learn . Keep.

@nancyricigliano19 2 года назад

@@thedigitalastronomer6442 I will keep you posted as i learn more about it.

@angelo327able Месяц назад

Very good presentation. Thank you.

@MrKeithcl Год назад

Wow This seems much easier than using multiple programs! The way Saturn snapped in was amazing! Thanks for the video!

@frank4one 8 месяцев назад

Never heard of Astrosurface! After watching your video, I downloaded and tried it for a couple of hours. Amazing! This just made all my other image processing software obsolete. No more PIPP, AS3! or Registax. What a joy to use.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 7 месяцев назад

Great to hear!

@astrokev99 3 дня назад

Pipp is a VERY different program, with lots of functionality beyond what AS is designed to do!

@humlakullen 6 месяцев назад

Astroturf is even better:-)!

@sergeroy1808 Год назад

Thank you Nancy for letting Joe know about this software, and thank you Joe for your great video. I have started using Astrosurface, getting great results with ease!!!

@FredLombardo Месяц назад

Just tried this on the only, and really terrible data acquisition, on Jupiter I have ever attempted. I have only tried planetary this one time but I really want to get into it. This software look great and heartens me into branching out from DSO. Thanks for demonstrating this program.

@scorpianspirit5124 5 месяцев назад

This is great. Just what I needed to find. It's been 10 years since I did anything with this hobby, and things have changed significantly for the better. Great find, and thanks for doing a video on this. Cheers.

@pinosoto77 4 месяца назад

Thank you Joe for everything you are teaching with your videos...I am new to this Astronomy adventure and finding your RU-vid channel is one of the best tools I can use to understand, to improve and to enjoy it. Thanks again

@nandagopalm7232 6 месяцев назад

Thanks. I just bought a new telescope and was learning astrophotography. This website would help a lot 🙏

@deepthought1569 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for posting, very easy for a new guy like me to understand. Clear and concise, love it. I'm just waiting on the camera to take the big plunge into astrophotography. If you keep posting I'll keep watching

@thedigitalastronomer6442 7 месяцев назад

Glad it helped

@JohnMcGFrance 6 месяцев назад

Looks great. Thanks Joe and Nancy.

@Nikolay-og3lu 2 месяца назад

Джо, приветствую Вас. Огромное Вам СПАСИБО!!! Случайно наткнулся на ваш ролик и очень доволен! Отличный обзор! Ещё раз ОГРОМНОЕ ВАМ СПАСИБО!!!

@nwadetoccedu 2 года назад

Amazing!!! this makes me want to start planetary and lunar imaging again.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

I hope you will.

@gregorykeating4195 Год назад

I really appreciate your videos Joe. This is just one more super helpful set of information that a newbie like me can put to immediate use. Thanks!

@starpartyguy5605 Год назад

Wow! I'm sold. That is one crazy program.

@billtracy8865 Год назад

Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this most informative video. Good information presented well.

@MADHIKER777 Год назад

Thanks to both Nancy & Joe & to the programmer for this! Looks straightforward even to a beginner like me. Subscribed!

@Morisato00 Год назад

Hi Joe! I just finished watching this and it was very informative for your trial run. I am a wildlife, outdoors, and light painting photographer at heart and I have dabbled with astrophotography. My interest in this has peaked and I now have a telescope, astral camera and I am looking forwarded to making this another favorite of mine. I know it will take Practice & Patients but I am willing to put in the time. Thank you for this video and also thanks to your subscriber (which I now am) for suggesting this program. I'll be practicing and when I get something neat I'll be sure to post it for others to see. Until then, clear skies from Fort Myers, Florida. (I know it's still rainy season) ^.^

@blaircolliver5194 Год назад

Thank you for the very informative tutorial. I am definitely going to check out the program!

@jeffchaplin555 Год назад

Hi Joe, very good information here. I'm new to AP, and I think I'll give it a try on planetary photography. You did a great job explaining the features that you've been using. Thanks for putting this video together!

@Stefan-Astro-Art 2 года назад

Amazing program. I think I am going to remove Autostakkert and registax and go for this new program. Thanks for this video, I don't see many video's about this software on RU-vid

@rayt5788 5 месяцев назад

nice tutorial, useful software for Astrophotography, Thanks

@BobChebat 7 месяцев назад

Outstanding tutorial. As a noob to all this I found it very easy to follow and I am already getting some better results. I have to look through your videos to see if you have dug deeper into the adjustments that can be made. Thank you Joe.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 7 месяцев назад

Glad that they helped you. This is why I love astrophotography, we are all learning from each other.

@oldgittarist 9 месяцев назад

Great demo, Joe!

@wolfgangkuechle9085 Год назад

Excellent explanation of an interesting program, thank you!

@jekeyes 2 года назад

Thank you, I have had issue with the other programs. This looks like my answer. Thank you again.

@KevinMurphy0403 Год назад

Fantastic presentation, thank you. I'm definitely going to try that software out.

@davidhoskin6144 2 года назад

Thanks for bringing this new processing program to my attention. I will try it out with my lunar and solar images. For solar I currently use Autostakkert, IMPPG, and Photoshop with good results. It will be interesting to see how AstroSurface compares.

@cadelepski5161 Год назад

Great looking piece of software and a great tutorial. Thanks Joe. Gonna try this now!

@cadelepski5161 Год назад

Update: Autostakkert and Registax uninstalled. This is brilliant.

@christianfiore5193 10 месяцев назад

Amazing, subscribed straight away.

@stewartbeveridge1564 2 года назад

Nice tutorial. Looks like I have some experimenting to do. Thanks

@craiglowery4427 Год назад

Great video Joe and the first time I’ve encountered your site so I subscribed. I have been looking for a replacement to AS!3 and Registak. Both of those are seemingly abandoned by their developers and are cyber risks in today’s world. It bothers me that planetary and lunar astrophotography count on obsolete software. Astrosurface is continually updated by the developers. Very powerful software. Thanks again

@knightingalesaid Год назад

Thanks for the review. It looks awesome!

@sergeylopanov1829 Год назад

Очень полезное видео. Thank you for the great video.

@davidjokic1205 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! this really helps me a lot.

@Toebaksworld Год назад

what a great find!! it will make things easier.

@jbflores01 2 года назад

great tutorial! very informative. thanks for the detailed info!

@josantia77 Год назад

I'm a amateur stargazer and I have to say, thank you for this review. I just got my first Astrocam from Svbony and going to use this program for post processing

@friskycrewgerrusty 3 месяца назад

Awesome tutorial, very in depth and clear. New Subscriber, keep them coming

@AnakinSkywalker-mm3gi Год назад

Hi Joe, I really found this video to be useful. I'd greatly appreciate a new video detailing how to use this program on deep sky objects such as nebulae and that also demonstrates the other features from AstroSurface you hadn't yet utilized or mastered from this video now that you've had time to play around with it more.

@JoesAstrophoto 2 года назад

Really nice tutorial Joe! If I try any planetary imaging, I'll be trying this first before learning the other programs after seeing your video. Thanks for sharing and good luck on the Headphones Nebula, it's really a cool little target.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Thanks Joe. It looks like I'm going to have some great conditions tonight so hopefully I'll get several more hours to add to what I've already captured.

@ssadams Год назад

thanks for the video. I am going to try this program 🔭

@Harutjun 6 месяцев назад

damn interesting i might try it this week, Thanks Subbed :)

@abhijitjuvekar 5 месяцев назад

Really good program. Will definitely try. Most of times in DSS for deep sky images where it does not find enough stars to align and stacking fails I can try that data stacking using this new software you mentioned.

@AswinSastrowardoyo 2 года назад

Thank you. Will try this program.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Great. I would love to here how it goes and what you think about it. I am still unsure about whether or not it will replace Autostakkert and Registax in my workflow, but I am certainly going to be testing it out.

@bobf3598 Год назад

Great piece of software.

@AtlanticCanadianAstronomy 5 месяцев назад

New sub from Nfld Canada

@tacomaastro7462 Год назад

I just came across this video, thanks for creating it. Of course this all came about due to the opposition of Jupiter and I was hellbent on getting an image with my C8. I tried the other software's and found them more difficult and time consuming than astrosurface. Although my final image wasn't hubble worthy I was very happy with it and am more inclined to do more planetary imaging in the future. I see the Moon and Mars in my future. :) Clear skies

@thedigitalastronomer6442 Год назад

That's great. We are finally getting some clear skies after a summer of clouds.

@tomwall8403 2 года назад

Thanks Joe! I'll try this on the next Moon cycle. Hi Neal!

@nwadetoccedu 2 года назад

Hi Tom, where are you?

@andelkoloncar4791 2 года назад

This is FANTASTIC program, I compared results I got with AstroSurface and Autostakkert with Registax and there is virtually no difference! Above great results, compared to Autostakkert and Registax, AstroSurface is way way faster not to mention simplicity of use!! It takes very short period of time to get use to it! Since I have VERY powerful PC i liked to exaggerate with Autostakkert but in that cases, it took me an hour per photo to get it done and with AstroSurface it took me only 5 minutes or even less!! GREAT post MR. JOE THANKS A LOT FOR THIS!!!!

@leep26 2 года назад

Great video.

@demej00 Год назад

Thanks. Very useful.

@astronomynotebook 2 года назад

Hi…great program…thank you for bringing this to our attention…how about doing another video on its use with solar images please❤️😊

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Wish that I could but I have not done any solar imaging and don't have the equipment for it. Would love to get into it sometime but right now simply can't afford to purchase the proper scope and setup.

@jurgenketterer7531 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing this info ... I installed the program and processed my solar images - I think I will proceed with it !! Greetings from Switzerland Juergen

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Great. Thanks for watching.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Jurgen, I had another viewer mention that they want to know how it handles solar images. Since I do not do solar imaging I was not able to help them. I'd love to know more about your experience with it and what you discovered.

@jurgenketterer7531 2 года назад

@@thedigitalastronomer6442 Hello Joe, I am happy to share my experience with you ! AstroSurface gives me a complete toolbox for everything I normally do with Video clips - sun, moon, planets .. and the processing is really fast and you can see your manipulation steps in realtime without switching from one software to another and back again ... open and close files etc ... I am far away from knowing all about the possibilities of AstroSurface and convinced that I will have fun with it - my aim is to do the processing in less time than before so I can quit this step without burning eyes ... time is so precious ... greeting from Switzerland, clear skies ... Jurgen

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Thanks Jurgen. I've been playing around with some lunar data today and I'm starting to get a little better with it. I agree that's it's nice having everything in one place.

@pksacoma Год назад

Very useful and a surprise to me

@zeroleppert Год назад

Thanks a lot for this hint! I had a hard time running Register on my M1 Mac in Crossover as it keeps crashing. But AstroSurface runs flawlessly within Crossover and gives me all the features I need.

@hyparh Год назад

Thanks for the helpful tutorial, that is a nice total-package astro program. The thing I miss most is that I cannot load all the video files for processing (like in AS3), but have to process them one by one.

@mercury7 Год назад

Thanks for review, I’ve been using it since it was first available and think it’s fantastic….but true I still don’t have a firm grasp on what all the features do…but anyway great program, recommended

@EvilOttoJrProductions 3 месяца назад

Thanks for this! I'm going to try AstroSurface later tonight. I'm just in the past few weeks starting to get into proper astrophotography, and the utterly ridiculous standard workflow involving 3 or 4 separate pieces of software just to perform a basic planetary photo is just irritating. I'm very glad someone decided to invest in a much-needed almost* all-in-one approach. *I say "almost" because I've still gotta rely on PIPP (which seems to be abandonware as the only current download as of this writing is on Internet Archive) to convert my videos to AVI, which my camera won't record in natively. I'd love it if this program just added MP4 support because that's a much more common recording format, but I'm sure there's some codec/compression shenanigans that prevent it.

@cliveroberts415 2 года назад

Tried it on some old and not very good data of Saturn. It works brilliantly so thank you for introducing this software. I agree with you though, the interface is a little confusing and could use some tweeks.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Glad you liked it. I'm looking forward to playing around with it more.

@Smillii 7 месяцев назад

The fact that the site is "not secure" refers to it not being HTTP. AKA it wouldn't encrypt stuff like any data you'd enter to the site, such as passwords or credit card info or whatever. Since the site doesn't have any of that, it doesn't really matter anyway. The site not being secure doesn't necessarily refer to it having viruses.

@CoEngine Месяц назад

Thanks for the info because my PC wouldn't allow me to download because it isn't secure which I thought would have a Virus.

@TheWookie_USN 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. I have been using "Surfacer" now for a couple of months and I have mostly ditched registax, however, the main thing missing is that I can take a series of 5, 10, 20 whatever SER files from Pipp and drag them into AS3. AS3 will analyze and process them one after the other based on my selections. Surfacer, you have to do them one at a time (at least I have not found a way to set it and forget it.)

@Jp_GooDay Год назад

good tutorial

@texasbackyardastronomyglen9040 Год назад

Thank you sharing this information. I’m trying Astrsurface for the first time right now. How long do you usually record your planet videos? 😊

@Bortle10 2 года назад

Thanks for your explanation! Those Saturn and Jupiter images are awesome. The raw images look like mine after stacking lol. What kind of telescope did you use?

@imphotography3468 Год назад

Great video, But when I have tried this with my video clip, mine is a small dot of Jupiter, how did you crop your video clip to get rid of most of the black frames around Jupiter and ending with a closer video clip of Jupiter to use in this program?

@thejll 9 месяцев назад

Hi Joe, nice video. And nice software! I was struggling to get Siril (I'm on linux) and Autostakkert (running in wine on linux) to actually align images that jump about a good deal. They are new moon images so there is just the crescent and then the faint earthshine on the dark side. The images not only jump about, but rotate - they were taken through one of the space station windows by the danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, up there at the moment, and transferred to us. The images rotate because the camera + photographer were freely floating at the time! I need to align and de-rotate these images, but cannot see how AstroSurface allows that - have you figured it out?

@ACEOFSPACE2000 Год назад

I used astrosurface .In my Opinion Autostakkert , Registax and Photoshop are the way to go. My images come out way better with those 3 programs.

@janebattle3667 Год назад

Hi Joe, I really enjoyed this video. I’m just getting started on planetary imaging. I use zwo cameras with asiair and not sure how to shoot video. Do you know how this is done? Or do I stitch the frames together after the fact.

@alansheiness8148 9 месяцев назад

I’m sure you’ve discovered how by now. It’s the VIDEO mode, selected in the same area where you select Preview, Live, Focus, etc. Then pick an ROI, a Gain, and an exposure value in ms.

@davidmurray527 Год назад

This sounds like great software and a real time-saver. So I downloaded the latest update of AstroSurface app but was unable to run it because the avcodec-58.dll was not found. End of story, unfortunately. Don't know if the codec is missing from the download or from my computer but sent a note to the developer.

@mercury7 Год назад

one thing I was never sure of is when you are selecting best frames to stack I saw you using the horizontal slider to further reduce frames…. Do the spikes in the graph represent inferior frames? I ask because I often just use the vertical slider to select half to 1/3rd… find that confusing since the graph already ranks from best to worse

@robertovolpini9359 Год назад

Hi Joe, I signed up for your channel as soon as I finished following this tutorial, you were very effective, clear and simple in the presentation, I had already seen a couple of tutorials but not so comprehensive. Regarding Astrosurface I have heard that maybe there is a version for DeepSky processing, do you know something? Ciao Roberto 😉

@thedigitalastronomer6442 Год назад

Roberto, astrosurface does have some options for deep sky but I have not developed an effective workflow yet but I am working on it.

@robertovolpini9359 Год назад

@@thedigitalastronomer6442 Hi Joe, thanks s lot for your reply, I hope you’ll find time to do some experiences on Astrosurface also for deepsky because see a very good software, see you Roberto

@Bills_APCh Год назад

Wow! What telescope did you use for Jupiter and Saturn? Did you use Televue powermates? Thanks Joe!

@gnomas2 Год назад

Hello I was curious what telescope and camera you was using to capture that planets?

@b34k97 Год назад

I appreciate the detailed tutorial here, but I'm not convinced. That Jupiter definitely looks over-baked with a sharpening artifact around the edge of the disk. I'm just not sure there's enough sharpening options here to pull out the details without creating artifacts. AS3 + Registax + Photoshop can get me some very natural looking images, and now that I've created a lot of presets for wavelets and Photoshop actions, I can get through images really quickly.

@sunpointstudio4472 Год назад

Did you notice that shortly after you clicked analyse the text window displayed numerous "Warning: Target Lost..." messages? The same thing happens to me and that makes me a little suspicious of the stacking algorithm. Have you any idea why this happens?

@juliomedina_astronomia8172 Год назад

Hello, greetings from Colombia, how do I stack photos from deep space?

@charlessands6933 Год назад

Have these images you processed through AstroSurface been processed through PIPP first?

@Katzenrads Год назад

Thanks for the video. What telescope setup do you use?

@thedigitalastronomer6442 Год назад

Celestron 8sct on avx mount and zwo 224 camera.

@stjepanjina 5 месяцев назад

i have problem in wavelets i have message Select an area (Roi) to apply adjustments??? !

@bkoestring 2 года назад

Can you just use it to process a TIFF from Autostakkert or do you have to start with your capture? To be honest, it looks a bit too course in doing wavelets. I have always used Autostakkert and Registax only. I never use Photoshop on my images and don't understand why people would want to use Photoshop.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 2 года назад

Not sure, but I'll give it a try. Honestly, that coarseness might be me not knowing what Im doing.

@markashworth472 5 месяцев назад

hi there using your video to astrosurface I'm very very new to this! you sort of mentioned bayer pattern and don't really understand what that is any help would be appreciated I have an asi224mc if that helps, so far I'm trying different ones 😂

@kayak26143 Месяц назад

I'm just getting into this how long of a video do we need to run on this program

@d3ci.b3L 11 месяцев назад

Does this program have a deringing feature that Registax has to eliminate the bright side of a planet?

@FernandoRodriguez-pj5uh Год назад

How do you deal with mono cameras? Do the process until before you do the RGB combine and sharpen after? What is your work flow!!

@starpartyguy5605 Год назад

Did you have to use Pipp to stabilize the image before using this software?

@lnewton46 Год назад

Joe, Will this program deBayer images from a OSC?

@adamfoit419 5 месяцев назад

What if we already have the tiff file saved from stacking previous? can we just bring that in or does it all have to be done beginning to end with this program? Also will this work good for galaxies and nebulas?

@thedigitalastronomer6442 5 месяцев назад

Bringing the tiff file in should work fine. When autostakkert stacks the frames of an avi file it will save as a tiff, so there should be no problem bringing in the previously stacked tiff and doing further processing.

@MichaelOffandgonestrong Год назад

why can i not select all in this ap, when i hit crtl a it copies.....?

@fabriziocanale9768 Год назад

Hello, does it replace also PIPP? Thanks

@glendcosta Год назад

Hello Joe, Thanks for your tutorial. I have downloaded the AstroSurface. However, my video is in MOV format and it doesnt open in the FILE open. Please guide me through. I am a senior citizen but pretty keen on astro photography as a hobby.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 Год назад

Glen, I'm not sure that you can load a mov file into astrosurface. I'll see if I can figure out a way but you would probably do better shooting in either avi or ser. There also might be some coverters that could change a mov file to avi.

@shkeller55 Год назад

I’m using PIPP to convert my cell phone videos to AVI format. Then I can use AstroSurface.

@woldsweather 5 дней назад

I fell at the first hurdle! My full disk moom avi won't open!

@adrianrodriguez9582 Год назад

what telescope did you use for this process?

@fatitankeris6327 Год назад

So, I guess I'll have to relearn stuff. I don't really think this makes AutoStakkert and RegiStax onsolete, but it might eventually.

@hungrysebik5516 Год назад

what telescope did you use?

@GaryPClark Год назад

I set up my jupiter just like you did, did the register and then set the grid and then when I stack, the program quits.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 Год назад

I've not had that happen. I'm not an expert on the program but a couple of ideas that I have are: 1) perhaps try removing and reinstalling, 2.) Check to see if your running short on ram- my guess is that this is a very memory intensive app so you might try closing any other processes that are running. 3) make sure your fully updated with whatever operating system your using. These are just off the top of my head.

@barrycraig1549 Год назад

the person who developed it spent 100's to 1,000's hours to have me down load it for free. The astronomy community is sooooo giving. That said let me give my complaints. ...

@zygmuntziokowski7877 7 месяцев назад

Hello Joe, too bad both softwares are for Windows OS, Astronomical image processing for Windows 64 bits and AutoStakkert!4. I am MAC OS users. I am having a hard time finding software for the MAC OS.

@thedigitalastronomer6442 7 месяцев назад

Can't really help you there, I'm not a Mac user.