First trys at imaging Saturn

Do you guys use registax when stacking images. I have registax and it seems to take forever (hours) for it to finish processing and stacking the images. Is this normal. And the end result is never that good. By the way I am still a complet novice at this sort of thing.

I always use registax, make sure that the first referance frame you select is a good one.
Also, play with the levels towards the end of the processing, it does wonderous things to images! but it cannot make a fab image out of something that is totally terrible.
It requires a fast PC, when running on mine it takes over all the available memory, 1 gigabyte!!

Do you guys use registax when stacking images. I have registax and it seems to take forever (hours) for it to finish processing and stacking the images. Is this normal. And the end result is never that good. By the way I am still a complet novice at this sort of thing.

Pioneer, what speed PC is it running on? Even with my old 2400+ Athlon PC with 512MB RAM a large dataset only took about 10 minutes to process, certainly not hours.

Pioneer, what speed PC is it running on? Even with my old 2400+ Athlon PC with 512MB RAM a large dataset only took about 10 minutes to process, certainly not hours.

I'm using it on a laptop. It has a 2.8GHz Processor and 512MB of RAM. I must be doing somthing wrong because it defentely takes more than 10 min to process an image.

Thanks lads.

Trevor.-
Yeah I got up at 5
I've been itching to see Saturn through a scope!
I did spend some time twords the end of the session messing around
with the manual settings of the webcam......with a bit more time
I should get the hang of it.

Dave-
Focusing is a pain escically coupled with trying to keep the object in the
mid-frame of the webcam!

I ran a good few AVI's at about 15fps for 60 seconds each.
I don't know is that enough time to capture enough useable frames?
Guess it all depends on the seeing etc...

Pioneer-
Registax is an absolutly awsome piece of work!
It reminds me of when I was a kid watching some spy flick and some CIA guys would
get a fuzzy video of a crime and give it to the Tec guys to 'enhance' it. They would run it through some programe and
as if by magic they could pull a clear image of a face from a blur!

Well, it's not quite that yet but I have some AVI's and if you look at them as just video it looks rubbish, a quick run through Regi and this amazing image jumps off the screen.
That spec laptop you have should be able to run registax no bother.