Starguide - A Practical Guide to Astro-Photography

PIPP stands for Planetary Image PreProcessor and is intende to limit the number of frames used for later stacking as well as video file format conversion (e.g. into a .AVI, or sets of .png or .fit files for later stacking e.g. by Registax or PixInsight.

• Open the PIPP software
• Add a .SER, .AVI or .MOV file (Menu > File > Add Source File  or Alt + A) from your Light subfolder
• A pop-up will ask you to enable debayering (for color images)
  
• An additional window opens showing the first frame of the video sequence
  
• Click on Update Image and the window will close
• On the main window select the correct Optimization Option
  
• On the Input Options you may select to limit the number of frames and set different other options
  
• PIPP Processing Options:
• disable COnvert to Monochrome (if not desired)
• enable Surface Features and Surface Stabilization
  
  
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• then switch to the PIPP - Input Frame and AFB/AOI windows 
• Drag and size the red rectangle (AFP = Anchor Feature Box) to an  area that can be used by PIPP to stabilze the surfurface
• Drag and size the blue rectangle (AOI = Area of Interest) so the the entire object will be included in the output file
• or disable the AOI check box (in this case the blue rectangle will be invisible)
  
  
  
• PIPP Quality Options
  
• PIPP Animation Options
  
• PIPP Output Options
  Make your choice which output format you will use for the post-processing (stacking).
  
• PIPP Do Processing 
  Click on Start Processing to generate the interim file(s)
  
• and the requested file(s) have been created in the PIPP sub-folders.

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