pfile said:there is a script called FFTRegistration that works reasonably well on the moon and the sun.
i think people have even managed to make StarAlignment register images of the moon, essentially tricking it into 'thinking' bright features on the moon are stars. there's a thread here somewhere about that.
rob
Niall Saunders said:Perhaps future development of PixInsight will enhance its capabilities in this area - especially given that the much-loved "Registax" package is no longer being supported (or so it would seem) by Cor Berrevoets.
Whilst I would never want to take anything away from Cor's tremendous efforts over the years, much of the pre-alignment and post-alignment processes offered in Registax are already available (to some extent) within PixInsight - and the actual FFT-based registration process is not totally outwith the capabilities of PI either.
So, come on all you coders out there - who fancies rolling up their sleeves and putting together a PixInsight PJSR script that can duplicate the stages implemented in Registax?
Nocturnal said:"One common issue I have noticed with these software is that they like to work on very small images, and I don't, I don't care for 400x 400 pixel images of the moon or Saturn or Jupiter"
Gosh. And here I have used AutoStackert to stack full frame ASI1600 images of the moon. But please enlighten us with all your years of experience.
RDBeck said:AutoStakkert works well using Wine in Linux. I use Crossover Office, and I expect that Mac users would be able to do the same to run AutoStakkert.
I had a series of DSLR files, and that was what didn't stack well in AutoStakkert. It stacked my SER files from my ASI 224MC quite well.
Juan Conejero said:Hi,
I'm glad to know the old FFTRegistration script is still useful. I wrote this script back in 2005. Wow, that's 12 years ago!
A new tool for feature-based image registration (probably using SURF descriptors, or maybe our own descriptors) is on the drawing board. It will include a high-performance arbitrary distortion correction algorithm similar to the next version of the StarAlignment tool, which will be released after the initial PixInsight 1.8.5 version. This new tool will be a primary building block for panorama generators in PixInsight. It will be also great for registration of lunar images and generation of lunar mosaics.