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Wowee, they look absolutely fantastic! That's terrific Ivo -- not only for how those images look, but also for the general workplan to adopt and tweak in the future. I hope it helps other planetary imagers out there. There should be little CA in the images -- they were taken with an 8" SCT at f/10 (...

And attached here are the 2 processed Saturn files, #2 & #3 (I didn't post one for Saturn with reversed stretching, as it looked horribly overexposed)

Attached are the 3 processed Mars files (note that for #4, I also cropped it tightly, so it seems a little smaller [no binning though])

I've been trying some StarTools planetary work tonight, with limited success. Looks like I might need some initial guidance. For each planet, the file was the result of 500 best frames out of 7000, stacked in AS!2, with brightness normalization turned off. The 4 images are: 1. AS!2 output (base file...

Thanks Ivo for the quick response and the advice about LRGB. I should have thought about a reference frame - makes perfect sense in hindsight. I'm using a Neximage 5 planetary camera for my captures, typically capturing 5-10K frames at 5-15 fps. I'll try to get AS!2 to keep the output as 'virgin' as...

I'm gradually climbing the StarTools learning curve (and enjoying it) - I've read the unofficial version of the latest PDF manual, watched all the vid tutorials, and read around on the forum a bit. Two things that are still a little unclear: 1. I've done some planetary imaging and stacked in Autosta...

Don't worry - I checked my version and updated to the latest RC. Problem fixed! Not to keep learning the arcane ways of the image enhancer!

Forgive my naivety Ivo, but how does one access the logfiles for StarTools, like the one posted in the thread above? Mine ('StarTools.log) has nothing in it, i.e. it looks like this: ----------------------------------------------------------- StarTools 1.3.3.224 -------------------------------------...