Hi Joe, you did great pronouncing my name. I'm so happy I mentioned AstroSurface to you. You actually showed me a couple of things I didn't know about the program. There aren't many thorough tutorials out there. I'm going to share this with a few of my astronomy groups and Instagram. Well done!!
Thanks so much Nancy. I definitely want to learn more about it. There are alot of features that I want to spend some time and use. If you have any suggestions I'd love to learn . Keep.
Never heard of Astrosurface! After watching your video, I downloaded and tried it for a couple of hours. Amazing! This just made all my other image processing software obsolete. No more PIPP, AS3! or Registax. What a joy to use.
This is great. Just what I needed to find. It's been 10 years since I did anything with this hobby, and things have changed significantly for the better. Great find, and thanks for doing a video on this. Cheers.
Thank you Nancy for letting Joe know about this software, and thank you Joe for your great video. I have started using Astrosurface, getting great results with ease!!!
Thanks for posting, very easy for a new guy like me to understand. Clear and concise, love it. I'm just waiting on the camera to take the big plunge into astrophotography. If you keep posting I'll keep watching
Outstanding tutorial. As a noob to all this I found it very easy to follow and I am already getting some better results. I have to look through your videos to see if you have dug deeper into the adjustments that can be made. Thank you Joe.
Amazing program. I think I am going to remove Autostakkert and registax and go for this new program. Thanks for this video, I don't see many video's about this software on UA-cam
Thank you Joe for everything you are teaching with your videos...I am new to this Astronomy adventure and finding your UA-cam channel is one of the best tools I can use to understand, to improve and to enjoy it. Thanks again
Thank you for sharing this info ... I installed the program and processed my solar images - I think I will proceed with it !! Greetings from Switzerland Juergen
Jurgen, I had another viewer mention that they want to know how it handles solar images. Since I do not do solar imaging I was not able to help them. I'd love to know more about your experience with it and what you discovered.
@@thedigitalastronomer6442 Hello Joe, I am happy to share my experience with you ! AstroSurface gives me a complete toolbox for everything I normally do with Video clips - sun, moon, planets .. and the processing is really fast and you can see your manipulation steps in realtime without switching from one software to another and back again ... open and close files etc ... I am far away from knowing all about the possibilities of AstroSurface and convinced that I will have fun with it - my aim is to do the processing in less time than before so I can quit this step without burning eyes ... time is so precious ... greeting from Switzerland, clear skies ... Jurgen
Thanks Jurgen. I've been playing around with some lunar data today and I'm starting to get a little better with it. I agree that's it's nice having everything in one place.
I'm a amateur stargazer and I have to say, thank you for this review. I just got my first Astrocam from Svbony and going to use this program for post processing
Just tried this on the only, and really terrible data acquisition, on Jupiter I have ever attempted. I have only tried planetary this one time but I really want to get into it. This software look great and heartens me into branching out from DSO. Thanks for demonstrating this program.
This is FANTASTIC program, I compared results I got with AstroSurface and Autostakkert with Registax and there is virtually no difference! Above great results, compared to Autostakkert and Registax, AstroSurface is way way faster not to mention simplicity of use!! It takes very short period of time to get use to it! Since I have VERY powerful PC i liked to exaggerate with Autostakkert but in that cases, it took me an hour per photo to get it done and with AstroSurface it took me only 5 minutes or even less!! GREAT post MR. JOE THANKS A LOT FOR THIS!!!!
Great video Joe and the first time I’ve encountered your site so I subscribed. I have been looking for a replacement to AS!3 and Registak. Both of those are seemingly abandoned by their developers and are cyber risks in today’s world. It bothers me that planetary and lunar astrophotography count on obsolete software. Astrosurface is continually updated by the developers. Very powerful software. Thanks again
Hi Joe, very good information here. I'm new to AP, and I think I'll give it a try on planetary photography. You did a great job explaining the features that you've been using. Thanks for putting this video together!
Thanks for bringing this new processing program to my attention. I will try it out with my lunar and solar images. For solar I currently use Autostakkert, IMPPG, and Photoshop with good results. It will be interesting to see how AstroSurface compares.
I just came across this video, thanks for creating it. Of course this all came about due to the opposition of Jupiter and I was hellbent on getting an image with my C8. I tried the other software's and found them more difficult and time consuming than astrosurface. Although my final image wasn't hubble worthy I was very happy with it and am more inclined to do more planetary imaging in the future. I see the Moon and Mars in my future. :) Clear skies
Hi Joe, I really found this video to be useful. I'd greatly appreciate a new video detailing how to use this program on deep sky objects such as nebulae and that also demonstrates the other features from AstroSurface you hadn't yet utilized or mastered from this video now that you've had time to play around with it more.
Hi Joe! I just finished watching this and it was very informative for your trial run. I am a wildlife, outdoors, and light painting photographer at heart and I have dabbled with astrophotography. My interest in this has peaked and I now have a telescope, astral camera and I am looking forwarded to making this another favorite of mine. I know it will take Practice & Patients but I am willing to put in the time. Thank you for this video and also thanks to your subscriber (which I now am) for suggesting this program. I'll be practicing and when I get something neat I'll be sure to post it for others to see. Until then, clear skies from Fort Myers, Florida. (I know it's still rainy season) ^.^
Really good program. Will definitely try. Most of times in DSS for deep sky images where it does not find enough stars to align and stacking fails I can try that data stacking using this new software you mentioned.
Wish that I could but I have not done any solar imaging and don't have the equipment for it. Would love to get into it sometime but right now simply can't afford to purchase the proper scope and setup.
Thank you. I have been using "Surfacer" now for a couple of months and I have mostly ditched registax, however, the main thing missing is that I can take a series of 5, 10, 20 whatever SER files from Pipp and drag them into AS3. AS3 will analyze and process them one after the other based on my selections. Surfacer, you have to do them one at a time (at least I have not found a way to set it and forget it.)
Really nice tutorial Joe! If I try any planetary imaging, I'll be trying this first before learning the other programs after seeing your video. Thanks for sharing and good luck on the Headphones Nebula, it's really a cool little target.
Thanks Joe. It looks like I'm going to have some great conditions tonight so hopefully I'll get several more hours to add to what I've already captured.
Great. I would love to here how it goes and what you think about it. I am still unsure about whether or not it will replace Autostakkert and Registax in my workflow, but I am certainly going to be testing it out.
Thanks a lot for this hint! I had a hard time running Register on my M1 Mac in Crossover as it keeps crashing. But AstroSurface runs flawlessly within Crossover and gives me all the features I need.
Tried it on some old and not very good data of Saturn. It works brilliantly so thank you for introducing this software. I agree with you though, the interface is a little confusing and could use some tweeks.
Thanks for the helpful tutorial, that is a nice total-package astro program. The thing I miss most is that I cannot load all the video files for processing (like in AS3), but have to process them one by one.
Thanks for review, I’ve been using it since it was first available and think it’s fantastic….but true I still don’t have a firm grasp on what all the features do…but anyway great program, recommended
Thanks for this! I'm going to try AstroSurface later tonight. I'm just in the past few weeks starting to get into proper astrophotography, and the utterly ridiculous standard workflow involving 3 or 4 separate pieces of software just to perform a basic planetary photo is just irritating. I'm very glad someone decided to invest in a much-needed almost* all-in-one approach. *I say "almost" because I've still gotta rely on PIPP (which seems to be abandonware as the only current download as of this writing is on Internet Archive) to convert my videos to AVI, which my camera won't record in natively. I'd love it if this program just added MP4 support because that's a much more common recording format, but I'm sure there's some codec/compression shenanigans that prevent it.
The fact that the site is "not secure" refers to it not being HTTP. AKA it wouldn't encrypt stuff like any data you'd enter to the site, such as passwords or credit card info or whatever. Since the site doesn't have any of that, it doesn't really matter anyway. The site not being secure doesn't necessarily refer to it having viruses.
Hi Joe, nice video. And nice software! I was struggling to get Siril (I'm on linux) and Autostakkert (running in wine on linux) to actually align images that jump about a good deal. They are new moon images so there is just the crescent and then the faint earthshine on the dark side. The images not only jump about, but rotate - they were taken through one of the space station windows by the danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, up there at the moment, and transferred to us. The images rotate because the camera + photographer were freely floating at the time! I need to align and de-rotate these images, but cannot see how AstroSurface allows that - have you figured it out?
one thing I was never sure of is when you are selecting best frames to stack I saw you using the horizontal slider to further reduce frames…. Do the spikes in the graph represent inferior frames? I ask because I often just use the vertical slider to select half to 1/3rd… find that confusing since the graph already ranks from best to worse
Great video, But when I have tried this with my video clip, mine is a small dot of Jupiter, how did you crop your video clip to get rid of most of the black frames around Jupiter and ending with a closer video clip of Jupiter to use in this program?
Thanks for your explanation! Those Saturn and Jupiter images are awesome. The raw images look like mine after stacking lol. What kind of telescope did you use?
thank you for sharing this information.. i hope to download Astrosurface onto my IPad later after work tonight. is this program IPad friendly ? ( touch screen )
I appreciate the detailed tutorial here, but I'm not convinced. That Jupiter definitely looks over-baked with a sharpening artifact around the edge of the disk. I'm just not sure there's enough sharpening options here to pull out the details without creating artifacts. AS3 + Registax + Photoshop can get me some very natural looking images, and now that I've created a lot of presets for wavelets and Photoshop actions, I can get through images really quickly.
This sounds like great software and a real time-saver. So I downloaded the latest update of AstroSurface app but was unable to run it because the avcodec-58.dll was not found. End of story, unfortunately. Don't know if the codec is missing from the download or from my computer but sent a note to the developer.
Hi Joe, I signed up for your channel as soon as I finished following this tutorial, you were very effective, clear and simple in the presentation, I had already seen a couple of tutorials but not so comprehensive. Regarding Astrosurface I have heard that maybe there is a version for DeepSky processing, do you know something? Ciao Roberto 😉
@@thedigitalastronomer6442 Hi Joe, thanks s lot for your reply, I hope you’ll find time to do some experiences on Astrosurface also for deepsky because see a very good software, see you Roberto
hi there using your video to astrosurface I'm very very new to this! you sort of mentioned bayer pattern and don't really understand what that is any help would be appreciated I have an asi224mc if that helps, so far I'm trying different ones 😂
Hi Joe, I really enjoyed this video. I’m just getting started on planetary imaging. I use zwo cameras with asiair and not sure how to shoot video. Do you know how this is done? Or do I stitch the frames together after the fact.
I’m sure you’ve discovered how by now. It’s the VIDEO mode, selected in the same area where you select Preview, Live, Focus, etc. Then pick an ROI, a Gain, and an exposure value in ms.
Did you notice that shortly after you clicked analyse the text window displayed numerous "Warning: Target Lost..." messages? The same thing happens to me and that makes me a little suspicious of the stacking algorithm. Have you any idea why this happens?
Can you just use it to process a TIFF from Autostakkert or do you have to start with your capture? To be honest, it looks a bit too course in doing wavelets. I have always used Autostakkert and Registax only. I never use Photoshop on my images and don't understand why people would want to use Photoshop.
Hello Joe, Thanks for your tutorial. I have downloaded the AstroSurface. However, my video is in MOV format and it doesnt open in the FILE open. Please guide me through. I am a senior citizen but pretty keen on astro photography as a hobby.
Glen, I'm not sure that you can load a mov file into astrosurface. I'll see if I can figure out a way but you would probably do better shooting in either avi or ser. There also might be some coverters that could change a mov file to avi.
What if we already have the tiff file saved from stacking previous? can we just bring that in or does it all have to be done beginning to end with this program? Also will this work good for galaxies and nebulas?
Bringing the tiff file in should work fine. When autostakkert stacks the frames of an avi file it will save as a tiff, so there should be no problem bringing in the previously stacked tiff and doing further processing.
I've not had that happen. I'm not an expert on the program but a couple of ideas that I have are: 1) perhaps try removing and reinstalling, 2.) Check to see if your running short on ram- my guess is that this is a very memory intensive app so you might try closing any other processes that are running. 3) make sure your fully updated with whatever operating system your using. These are just off the top of my head.
Hi Joe, you did great pronouncing my name. I'm so happy I mentioned AstroSurface to you. You actually showed me a couple of things I didn't know about the program. There aren't many thorough tutorials out there. I'm going to share this with a few of my astronomy groups and Instagram. Well done!!
Thanks so much Nancy. I definitely want to learn more about it. There are alot of features that I want to spend some time and use. If you have any suggestions I'd love to learn . Keep.
@@thedigitalastronomer6442 I will keep you posted as i learn more about it.
Never heard of Astrosurface! After watching your video, I downloaded and tried it for a couple of hours. Amazing! This just made all my other image processing software obsolete. No more PIPP, AS3! or Registax. What a joy to use.
Great to hear!
Pipp is a VERY different program, with lots of functionality beyond what AS is designed to do!
Wow This seems much easier than using multiple programs! The way Saturn snapped in was amazing! Thanks for the video!
This is great. Just what I needed to find. It's been 10 years since I did anything with this hobby, and things have changed significantly for the better. Great find, and thanks for doing a video on this. Cheers.
Thank you Nancy for letting Joe know about this software, and thank you Joe for your great video. I have started using Astrosurface, getting great results with ease!!!
Thanks for posting, very easy for a new guy like me to understand. Clear and concise, love it.
I'm just waiting on the camera to take the big plunge into astrophotography. If you keep posting I'll keep watching
Glad it helped
Looks great. Thanks Joe and Nancy.
Amazing, subscribed straight away.
Outstanding tutorial. As a noob to all this I found it very easy to follow and I am already getting some better results. I have to look through your videos to see if you have dug deeper into the adjustments that can be made. Thank you Joe.
Glad that they helped you. This is why I love astrophotography, we are all learning from each other.
Джо, приветствую Вас. Огромное Вам СПАСИБО!!! Случайно наткнулся на ваш ролик и очень доволен! Отличный обзор! Ещё раз ОГРОМНОЕ ВАМ СПАСИБО!!!
Wow! I'm sold. That is one crazy program.
Great demo, Joe!
Very good presentation. Thank you.
Amazing program. I think I am going to remove Autostakkert and registax and go for this new program.
Thanks for this video, I don't see many video's about this software on UA-cam
Amazing!!! this makes me want to start planetary and lunar imaging again.
I hope you will.
Thanks. I just bought a new telescope and was learning astrophotography. This website would help a lot 🙏
Thanks for great intro to astrosurface! I’m new to all this and this app seems worth trying
nice tutorial, useful software for Astrophotography, Thanks
Thank you Joe for everything you are teaching with your videos...I am new to this Astronomy adventure and finding your UA-cam channel is one of the best tools I can use to understand, to improve and to enjoy it. Thanks again
Thank you for sharing this info ... I installed the program and processed my solar images - I think I will proceed with it !! Greetings from Switzerland Juergen
Great. Thanks for watching.
Jurgen, I had another viewer mention that they want to know how it handles solar images. Since I do not do solar imaging I was not able to help them. I'd love to know more about your experience with it and what you discovered.
@@thedigitalastronomer6442 Hello Joe, I am happy to share my experience with you ! AstroSurface gives me a complete toolbox for everything I normally do with Video clips - sun, moon, planets .. and the processing is really fast and you can see your manipulation steps in realtime without switching from one software to another and back again ... open and close files etc ... I am far away from knowing all about the possibilities of AstroSurface and convinced that I will have fun with it - my aim is to do the processing in less time than before so I can quit this step without burning eyes ... time is so precious ... greeting from Switzerland, clear skies ... Jurgen
Thanks Jurgen. I've been playing around with some lunar data today and I'm starting to get a little better with it. I agree that's it's nice having everything in one place.
Thanks for an excellent review!
I'm a amateur stargazer and I have to say, thank you for this review. I just got my first Astrocam from Svbony and going to use this program for post processing
I really appreciate your videos Joe. This is just one more super helpful set of information that a newbie like me can put to immediate use. Thanks!
Just tried this on the only, and really terrible data acquisition, on Jupiter I have ever attempted. I have only tried planetary this one time but I really want to get into it. This software look great and heartens me into branching out from DSO. Thanks for demonstrating this program.
This is FANTASTIC program, I compared results I got with AstroSurface and Autostakkert with Registax and there is virtually no difference! Above great results, compared to Autostakkert and Registax, AstroSurface is way way faster not to mention simplicity of use!! It takes very short period of time to get use to it! Since I have VERY powerful PC i liked to exaggerate with Autostakkert but in that cases, it took me an hour per photo to get it done and with AstroSurface it took me only 5 minutes or even less!! GREAT post MR. JOE THANKS A LOT FOR THIS!!!!
Astroturf is even better:-)!
Great video Joe and the first time I’ve encountered your site so I subscribed. I have been looking for a replacement to AS!3 and Registak. Both of those are seemingly abandoned by their developers and are cyber risks in today’s world. It bothers me that planetary and lunar astrophotography count on obsolete software. Astrosurface is continually updated by the developers. Very powerful software. Thanks again
Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this most informative video. Good information presented well.
Nice tutorial. Looks like I have some experimenting to do. Thanks
Awesome tutorial, very in depth and clear. New Subscriber, keep them coming
Hi Joe, very good information here. I'm new to AP, and I think I'll give it a try on planetary photography. You did a great job explaining the features that you've been using. Thanks for putting this video together!
Thanks for bringing this new processing program to my attention. I will try it out with my lunar and solar images. For solar I currently use Autostakkert, IMPPG, and Photoshop with good results. It will be interesting to see how AstroSurface compares.
I just came across this video, thanks for creating it. Of course this all came about due to the opposition of Jupiter and I was hellbent on getting an image with my C8. I tried the other software's and found them more difficult and time consuming than astrosurface. Although my final image wasn't hubble worthy I was very happy with it and am more inclined to do more planetary imaging in the future. I see the Moon and Mars in my future. :) Clear skies
That's great. We are finally getting some clear skies after a summer of clouds.
Thanks to both Nancy & Joe & to the programmer for this! Looks straightforward even to a beginner like me. Subscribed!
Hi Joe, I really found this video to be useful. I'd greatly appreciate a new video detailing how to use this program on deep sky objects such as nebulae and that also demonstrates the other features from AstroSurface you hadn't yet utilized or mastered from this video now that you've had time to play around with it more.
Очень полезное видео. Thank you for the great video.
Excellent explanation of an interesting program, thank you!
thanks for the video. I am going to try this program 🔭
Thank you, I have had issue with the other programs. This looks like my answer. Thank you again.
Great looking piece of software and a great tutorial. Thanks Joe. Gonna try this now!
Update: Autostakkert and Registax uninstalled. This is brilliant.
Hi Joe! I just finished watching this and it was very informative for your trial run. I am a wildlife, outdoors, and light painting photographer at heart and I have dabbled with astrophotography. My interest in this has peaked and I now have a telescope, astral camera and I am looking forwarded to making this another favorite of mine. I know it will take Practice & Patients but I am willing to put in the time. Thank you for this video and also thanks to your subscriber (which I now am) for suggesting this program. I'll be practicing and when I get something neat I'll be sure to post it for others to see. Until then, clear skies from Fort Myers, Florida. (I know it's still rainy season) ^.^
Fantastic presentation, thank you. I'm definitely going to try that software out.
what a great find!! it will make things easier.
Ok. Sold. I need to try this for planetary!!!
Really good program. Will definitely try. Most of times in DSS for deep sky images where it does not find enough stars to align and stacking fails I can try that data stacking using this new software you mentioned.
Thanks Joe! I'll try this on the next Moon cycle. Hi Neal!
Hi Tom, where are you?
Thank you for the very informative tutorial. I am definitely going to check out the program!
Hi…great program…thank you for bringing this to our attention…how about doing another video on its use with solar images please❤️😊
Wish that I could but I have not done any solar imaging and don't have the equipment for it. Would love to get into it sometime but right now simply can't afford to purchase the proper scope and setup.
Thanks for the review. It looks awesome!
Thank you. I have been using "Surfacer" now for a couple of months and I have mostly ditched registax, however, the main thing missing is that I can take a series of 5, 10, 20 whatever SER files from Pipp and drag them into AS3. AS3 will analyze and process them one after the other based on my selections. Surfacer, you have to do them one at a time (at least I have not found a way to set it and forget it.)
Really nice tutorial Joe! If I try any planetary imaging, I'll be trying this first before learning the other programs after seeing your video. Thanks for sharing and good luck on the Headphones Nebula, it's really a cool little target.
Thanks Joe. It looks like I'm going to have some great conditions tonight so hopefully I'll get several more hours to add to what I've already captured.
Thank you so much! this really helps me a lot.
Thank you. Will try this program.
Great. I would love to here how it goes and what you think about it. I am still unsure about whether or not it will replace Autostakkert and Registax in my workflow, but I am certainly going to be testing it out.
Thanks a lot for this hint! I had a hard time running Register on my M1 Mac in Crossover as it keeps crashing. But AstroSurface runs flawlessly within Crossover and gives me all the features I need.
Tried it on some old and not very good data of Saturn. It works brilliantly so thank you for introducing this software. I agree with you though, the interface is a little confusing and could use some tweeks.
Glad you liked it. I'm looking forward to playing around with it more.
Thank you sharing this information.
I’m trying Astrsurface for the first time right now.
How long do you usually record your planet videos? 😊
Thanks for the helpful tutorial, that is a nice total-package astro program. The thing I miss most is that I cannot load all the video files for processing (like in AS3), but have to process them one by one.
Thanks for review, I’ve been using it since it was first available and think it’s fantastic….but true I still don’t have a firm grasp on what all the features do…but anyway great program, recommended
Thanks for this! I'm going to try AstroSurface later tonight. I'm just in the past few weeks starting to get into proper astrophotography, and the utterly ridiculous standard workflow involving 3 or 4 separate pieces of software just to perform a basic planetary photo is just irritating. I'm very glad someone decided to invest in a much-needed almost* all-in-one approach.
*I say "almost" because I've still gotta rely on PIPP (which seems to be abandonware as the only current download as of this writing is on Internet Archive) to convert my videos to AVI, which my camera won't record in natively. I'd love it if this program just added MP4 support because that's a much more common recording format, but I'm sure there's some codec/compression shenanigans that prevent it.
Great piece of software.
damn interesting i might try it this week, Thanks Subbed :)
great tutorial! very informative. thanks for the detailed info!
Is an AstroSurface download link still available? The UK link seems down at this time.
Very useful and a surprise to me
Thanks. Very useful.
New sub from Nfld Canada
The fact that the site is "not secure" refers to it not being HTTP. AKA it wouldn't encrypt stuff like any data you'd enter to the site, such as passwords or credit card info or whatever. Since the site doesn't have any of that, it doesn't really matter anyway. The site not being secure doesn't necessarily refer to it having viruses.
Thanks for the info because my PC wouldn't allow me to download because it isn't secure which I thought would have a Virus.
Great video.
Hello I was curious what telescope and camera you was using to capture that planets?
Hi Joe, nice video. And nice software! I was struggling to get Siril (I'm on linux) and Autostakkert (running in wine on linux) to actually align images that jump about a good deal. They are new moon images so there is just the crescent and then the faint earthshine on the dark side. The images not only jump about, but rotate - they were taken through one of the space station windows by the danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, up there at the moment, and transferred to us. The images rotate because the camera + photographer were freely floating at the time! I need to align and de-rotate these images, but cannot see how AstroSurface allows that - have you figured it out?
one thing I was never sure of is when you are selecting best frames to stack I saw you using the horizontal slider to further reduce frames…. Do the spikes in the graph represent inferior frames? I ask because I often just use the vertical slider to select half to 1/3rd… find that confusing since the graph already ranks from best to worse
Great video, But when I have tried this with my video clip, mine is a small dot of Jupiter, how did you crop your video clip to get rid of most of the black frames around Jupiter and ending with a closer video clip of Jupiter to use in this program?
Thanks for your explanation! Those Saturn and Jupiter images are awesome. The raw images look like mine after stacking lol. What kind of telescope did you use?
good tutorial
thank you for sharing this information..
i hope to download Astrosurface onto my IPad later after work tonight.
is this program IPad friendly ? ( touch screen )
I'm just getting into this how long of a video do we need to run on this program
I appreciate the detailed tutorial here, but I'm not convinced. That Jupiter definitely looks over-baked with a sharpening artifact around the edge of the disk. I'm just not sure there's enough sharpening options here to pull out the details without creating artifacts.
AS3 + Registax + Photoshop can get me some very natural looking images, and now that I've created a lot of presets for wavelets and Photoshop actions, I can get through images really quickly.
This sounds like great software and a real time-saver. So I downloaded the latest update of AstroSurface app but was unable to run it because the avcodec-58.dll was not found. End of story, unfortunately. Don't know if the codec is missing from the download or from my computer but sent a note to the developer.
Wow! What telescope did you use for Jupiter and Saturn? Did you use Televue powermates? Thanks Joe!
Hi Joe, I signed up for your channel as soon as I finished following this tutorial, you were very effective, clear and simple in the presentation, I had already seen a couple of tutorials but not so comprehensive. Regarding Astrosurface I have heard that maybe there is a version for DeepSky processing, do you know something?
Ciao
Roberto 😉
Roberto, astrosurface does have some options for deep sky but I have not developed an effective workflow yet but I am working on it.
@@thedigitalastronomer6442 Hi Joe, thanks s lot for your reply, I hope you’ll find time to do some experiences on Astrosurface also for deepsky because see a very good software, see you
Roberto
hi there using your video to astrosurface I'm very very new to this! you sort of mentioned bayer pattern and don't really understand what that is any help would be appreciated I have an asi224mc if that helps, so far I'm trying different ones 😂
i have problem in wavelets i have message Select an area (Roi) to apply adjustments??? !
Hi Joe, I really enjoyed this video. I’m just getting started on planetary imaging. I use zwo cameras with asiair and not sure how to shoot video. Do you know how this is done? Or do I stitch the frames together after the fact.
I’m sure you’ve discovered how by now. It’s the VIDEO mode, selected in the same area where you select Preview, Live, Focus, etc. Then pick an ROI, a Gain, and an exposure value in ms.
Have these images you processed through AstroSurface been processed through PIPP first?
Hello, greetings from Colombia, how do I stack photos from deep space?
Did you notice that shortly after you clicked analyse the text window displayed numerous "Warning: Target Lost..." messages? The same thing happens to me and that makes me a little suspicious of the stacking algorithm. Have you any idea why this happens?
Can you just use it to process a TIFF from Autostakkert or do you have to start with your capture? To be honest, it looks a bit too course in doing wavelets. I have always used Autostakkert and Registax only. I never use Photoshop on my images and don't understand why people would want to use Photoshop.
Not sure, but I'll give it a try. Honestly, that coarseness might be me not knowing what Im doing.
How do you deal with mono cameras? Do the process until before you do the RGB combine and sharpen after? What is your work flow!!
Thanks for the video. What telescope setup do you use?
Celestron 8sct on avx mount and zwo 224 camera.
Did you have to use Pipp to stabilize the image before using this software?
Hello Joe, Thanks for your tutorial. I have downloaded the AstroSurface. However, my video is in MOV format and it doesnt open in the FILE open. Please guide me through. I am a senior citizen but pretty keen on astro photography as a hobby.
Glen, I'm not sure that you can load a mov file into astrosurface. I'll see if I can figure out a way but you would probably do better shooting in either avi or ser. There also might be some coverters that could change a mov file to avi.
I’m using PIPP to convert my cell phone videos to AVI format. Then I can use AstroSurface.
Joe, Will this program deBayer images from a OSC?
what telescope did you use for this process?
Hello, does it replace also PIPP?
Thanks
I used astrosurface .In my Opinion Autostakkert , Registax and Photoshop are the way to go. My images come out way better with those 3 programs.
What if we already have the tiff file saved from stacking previous? can we just bring that in or does it all have to be done beginning to end with this program? Also will this work good for galaxies and nebulas?
Bringing the tiff file in should work fine. When autostakkert stacks the frames of an avi file it will save as a tiff, so there should be no problem bringing in the previously stacked tiff and doing further processing.
what telescope did you use?
why can i not select all in this ap, when i hit crtl a it copies.....?
I fell at the first hurdle! My full disk moom avi won't open!
I set up my jupiter just like you did, did the register and then set the grid and then when I stack, the program quits.
I've not had that happen. I'm not an expert on the program but a couple of ideas that I have are: 1) perhaps try removing and reinstalling, 2.) Check to see if your running short on ram- my guess is that this is a very memory intensive app so you might try closing any other processes that are running. 3) make sure your fully updated with whatever operating system your using. These are just off the top of my head.