I am starting off in narrowband imaging and in Photoshop I can manually align Ha, Sii, O3 and have the freedom to blend each one although I am new to this. However manually aligning them is tricky. I know Registar can align all 3 into 1 aligned image (I have only just got the evaluation copy) but can it align all 3 so that when imported to Photoshop and merged they are already aligned? Or do put it another way how do folk use Registar to align narrowband images for onward processing in Photoshop? Some help would be really appreciated as I am a bit stuck. This is new to me.
Aligning narrowband images in Registar prior to processing in Photoshop
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Hi, I've used registar for mosaics, and it does the job but is fiddly to use.
To be frank - get yourself on to Astropixel processor. Comes with a 30 day free trial - https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/
It's far more intuitive than registar, easy to use, does calibration, registration, normalization, stacking, LP removal and has a few photoshop like functions as well.
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Andy
To be frank - get yourself on to Astropixel processor. Comes with a 30 day free trial - https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/
It's far more intuitive than registar, easy to use, does calibration, registration, normalization, stacking, LP removal and has a few photoshop like functions as well.
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Andy
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Thanks Andy I am now trying it out.
I've long used CCDStack to calibtate, clean, align, register and combine images. It's marvelous.
Bob
Bob
I use Registar for aligning subs and it does a great job. They are of course still aligned when importing into photoshop.
I've always used Registar and have found it very reliable whether it's mosaics or individual frames for combining in PS. I bought it 15 years ago - took a break for 10 years then when I came back to imaging they honored my original license so I'll be sticking with it!!
Not tried Astropixel but I'm sure it also does a great job!
John
Not tried Astropixel but I'm sure it also does a great job!
John
John Noble:
I've always used Registar and have found it very reliable whether it's mosaics or individual frames for combining in PS. I bought it 15 years ago - took a break for 10 years then when I came back to imaging they honored my original license so I'll be sticking with it!!
Not tried Astropixel but I'm sure it also does a great job!
John
I bought Registar to align my fully processed SHO images as I was tired of doing it manually in PS. Then I realised I could simply align every sub form every filter to a single sub (usually my best Ha sub) and have my stacked, unprocessed images already aligned. I used to do the calibration, aligning, and stacking in DSS but found that Registar was far superior to DSS for aligning. So I decided to something a bit weird and use DSS to calibrate the subs, save the calibrated files, align them in Registar, save the now calibrated and aligned subs, them stack them in DSS (without DSS trying to align them again). Once I have the stacked, unprocessed images, I just delete all the intermediate files. A bit weird but I'm used to to and trying to hold off buying APP or PI!
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