4 April 2002
First light with my own Toucam. Jupiter at f20 with 8"SCT, 640x480 resolution, 5fps, 1/25sec, 10% gain. 37 frames selected in K3CCD; mean combined with 2x resample, default u/s mask 7 + default cit deconvolve 1 in Astrostack; 5% brightness reduction + 5% contrast increase, resampled back to original size and cropped in PainShopPro. Conditions: seeing fair, transparency poor.

Same raw material as for image above but this time processed entirely with Registrax using it's FFT alignment, automatic frame selection (30 frames in this case) and wavelet processing (as opposed to unsharp masking etc). It possibly looks a little over processed but it's brought out much more detail than manual processing and was much quicker and easier.

Comparison of the above image using manual frame selection, stacking and processing and Registrax to align, autoselect, stack and wavelet process.