You can either select a video by dragging and dropping your video on the frame view window, or as an alternative, you can click on the open button on the main processing window and select the video you want to process. The main window on the left shows you all the processing options, and a second “frame view” window on the right shows the video you want to process. Upon opening the program, Autostakkert shows two separate windows. You can find a complete overview of my astrogear here. For those interested, I captured this one-minute video of Jupiter with my Celestron Edge HD 8″ telescope, my ZWO ASI178MC camera with a 2.5x Barlow lens, and my SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro mount. You can DOWNLOAD my VIDEO of Jupiter here if you want to follow along with this tutorial using the same data. Emil is currently working on the 4th version of Autostakkert, so the more donations he gets, the sooner he can release the 4th version of this awesome freeware. Please don’t forget to donate Emil a cup of coffee to show your appreciation.

You can download the software for free from the autostakkert website.

Autostakkert is an excellent tool to create stacked images from video files of the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and even deep-sky astrophotography objects. Downloading Autostakkert and my video of JupiterĪutostakkert! is a free software tool developed by a very kind software engineer from The Netherlands, Emil Kraaikamp. If you’re completely new to planetary imaging, I recommend you first take a look at my v/blog about top 10 tips to capture The Planets, and perhaps also this v/blog about best telescopes to start planetary imaging. If you want to add your knowledge on how to process the planets, or if you have additional questions, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section so we can all learn from one another. Nevertheless, I will show you what I know.

I’m not an expert on planetary processing, and I’ve captured my videos under light-polluted city skies in The Netherlands with the Planets close to the horizon, so we are definitely not working with the highest quality data. Before starting this tutorial there are a couple of disclaimers I need to make.

Download registax 6 tutorial jupiter