I’ve had some discussion with a few people about using Autostakkert!2 instead of Registax for stacking planetary images, and potentially using AS!2’s drizzle function as well so I decided to reprocess some of my recent Jupiter images
So, here are the results for three images from mid-November with three different processing treatments. I’ve processed them entirely within Registax v6, stacked in AS!2 and used wavelets in Registax v6, and stacked with 1.5x drizzle in AS!2, used wavelets in Registax v6 and downscaled to match the size of the originals.
In each of the three sets the last image is the drizzled one and I think it’s rubbish compared to the other two. Where the non-drizzled images are concerned, I think it’s a very close call. I’d go with the first image by a gnat’s whisker in the first two sets after a fairly microscopic examination and I’d go with the second image in the last set.
I’ve since had an email from someone who knows rather more about AS!2 than me making some suggestions about the application of drizzle and stacking, so I probably need to go back and have another go.