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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Fay on Mar 27, 2016, 19:10:54

Title: Jupiter Meade 8" x2 Barlow DMK 21AU04 mono, 1500 frames
Post by: Fay on Mar 27, 2016, 19:10:54
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1483/25468349024_01da975a56.jpg)

It went thru Virtual dub to get it thru AutoStakkert, Castrator to crop the avi, then into Registax and PS

Not too good. lines across planet and moons not synchronised
Title: Re: Jupiter Meade 8" x2 Barlow DMK 21AU04 mono, 1500 frames
Post by: RobertM on Mar 27, 2016, 20:03:46
Well done, that's a pretty good effort considering all the problems you've had.

Some of that software sounds a bit painful !

Robert
Title: Re: Jupiter Meade 8" x2 Barlow DMK 21AU04 mono, 1500 frames
Post by: The Thing on Mar 27, 2016, 20:33:50
That is good Fay, you haven't done a planet for ages. You should try Firecapture with your DMK, I suspect it will output an AVI that Autostakkert even though you are using a DMK.

TIP: Try using around 18 100px alignment points in AS2! using the auto function and using the Brightness setting to control the number of points. Also make sure Normalise is set to around 75%, this has major implications for bit depth and so further processing.
Title: Re: Jupiter Meade 8" x2 Barlow DMK 21AU04 mono, 1500 frames
Post by: Fay on Mar 27, 2016, 22:06:37
Thankyou Robert,  i will have another go at processing and check out what you suggested Duncan
Title: Re: Jupiter Meade 8" x2 Barlow DMK 21AU04 mono, 1500 frames
Post by: JohnP on Mar 28, 2016, 01:11:40
Nice one Fay. John.
Title: Re: Jupiter Meade 8" x2 Barlow DMK 21AU04 mono, 1500 frames
Post by: MarkS on Mar 28, 2016, 07:24:17
You've got everything working Fay!  It's looking good.

In AS!2 add a manual alignment point on each moon and shadow - that will tighten them up.

Mark