Telescope aperture and focal ratio: Meade LX90 8" UHTC, Moonfish 2" x2 ED Barlow, Moonfish variable extension tube and t-mount adapter, Pierro Astro Astmospheric Dispersion Corrector, (in that order). Unguided HEQ5 (bearings, power socket and belt drive mods).
Camera and filters used: Phillips SPC900NC, Baader Neodymnium, Revelation UV/IR
Processing applied: Autostakkert2!, Registax, JASC Annimation Workshop. Colour balanced at capture
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/JupiterIo_2015-01-26T23_16_05.gif)
Wow. That's lovely.
Duncan that is fantastic. Wow !!!! That has given me a kick up the back side to get learning. Any idea what causes the dip in luminosity in io a few frames in?
Fantastic animation! Good detail and colour. The red spot and a moon! Really well done!
Quote from: MarkH on Jan 27, 2015, 20:07:52
Any idea what causes the dip in luminosity in io a few frames in?
Thin clouds, also the first couple of frames.
BTW it's composed of 25 frames from 60s captures at 10fps with 1min intervals keeping 40% of the best frames. The animation shows how fast Jupiter is rotating! The elapsed time is around 1h15m. Next step is to master WinJUPOS derotation :}
Great animation Duncan.
Very smooth Duncan. I like it, John.
Thanks everyone!
Duncan that is so good!!!! how many frames?
Excellent effort, I think we need another imaging session on your planetary workflow before you escape to France permanently!
Crikey Duncan, that really is a superb effort and there is just so much detail. That has to be your best to date.
That ADC is certainly doing the business.
Robert
QuoteThat has to be your best to date.
I'd agree with that, have you got a stacked "still", there must be more detail than in your previous images.
Glad you said where you took it since you are in two places these days lol.
Carole
Fantastic animation, Duncan. Well done. I only wish ........
Doug.
A single image made from the 50% best frames on 60s capture @10fps. There is even colour and possibly features on Io, I didn't think this was possible with my scope.
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/AS_p50_Multi_JupiterIoHi_2015-01-27T00_02_09_g3_ap43_RGSTX.png)
That's about a hundred times better than my best effort :(
Great image and animation Duncan
First attempt at this. Same processed images as before but utilising WinJUPOS to de-rotate the images and so combine them despite the images being taken over more than 1 hour which would normally result in smearing. Resulting image tweaked in Registax.
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/2015-01-26-2338_1-DAE_RGSTX.png)
Hi Duncan, Nice but I think I prefer previous - this one is starting to get that 'overprocessed' look (at least to me) - looks like there are some 'ringing' effects going on - it has sharpened up the banding details though..
John