I am no professional and honestly don't know much on what I am doing. But this is my current knowledge and walk-through of me stacking and processing an image of the nearly full moon.
I'm just going to get a Canon EOS 1300 DSLR camera to take long exposure shots for astro photography. Would that be a good camera still in 2020? It's second hand.
Thanks for the great video! Which tracker do you use? If I shot without a tracker, would the "Brute Force Alignment" in AutoStakkert correct for the movement of the moon across the frame without a tracker and align the shots? Also, did you just hit your clicker/shutter button as quickly as your camera would allow until you felt you had enough shots? How did you gauge when you felt you had enough shots?
The tracker I use an ioptron smarteq pro. For shots like this, you really don't need to use one. My cameras shutter speed was fairly quick motion blur would not be noticed. I used a remote shutter and just kept hitting it until my hand got tired. This video is a bit older and I've learned much more in processing and gathering. Still frames Iike to get at least 1000 and let pipp and autostakkert sort out the best 35-50% Now I use an asi120mm-s guide camera to take moon pics, taking video with 3000 frames is much faster. Ill have to make an updated video soon of both my DSLR stills and asi120 video frames and compare them.
I am trying to install this application but whenever I do the computer says "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes on this computer" Did this happen do anyone else? Do I accept? I am very new and don't want something bad to happen on my computer.
I would recommend taking anywhere from 500-1000 frames if stacking photos. I'm no expert in the matter, it's just what I've found works best for me. I have an updated video on actually shooting small avi clips, those have about 3000 frames in them and bring out better detail than the photos once processed with the same programs.
How have to convert the files from raw to tif. Canon digital photo professional software lets you do this in batch process. When you go to download it you'll need to input your cameras serial number.
Im having trouble stacking them because i have no tracking and im using a dob so its kinda zoomed it too far to get the full disc. How do i allign the images
You could try Microsoft Ice and see if it would build a mosaic, you need the full disk to stack the full disk otherwise they have to be a mosaic or "close up"
The more clean images you stack the more detail you're able to pull out. I've changed my technique a bit now with different equipment ill have to make an updated video soon. For photos I try to take at least 1000 frames and let pipp pick the best 75% But I've gotten much better results taking video instead of photos.
I need help, I shot moon video at 1080 60fps, with 300mm lens and now when I use pipp for extracting some frames out of video the output image of Moon is blur please help someone with it
I can't say for sure, but I remember having issues when using pipp with 1080p video, thats why I used pictures instead. Something to do with the cropped frame from the video losing detail. I'm no expert on the program, I'd have to try to shoot video and try it myself to see. For now I would stick to single picture frames to get full resolution. I only use video when I'm zoomed into the moon now with a telescope. Which I will eventually make another tutorial for. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
@Brendenowits good video. Thank you. In the beginning, when waiting for pipp to process, it's silence, and all you hear is you eating your hot dog, lol
It's my belief the more you take the more you can bring out the detail, also it gives you more choice when using the software to pick the best % of images
