Tonights effort

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

Not had much of a chance to process the files I've captures, but I think there good.  Heres an example.



More to come.

[ This Message was edited by: csuddell on 2004-02-09 08:32 ]

[Whitters]

Very nice Chris.

[Mike]

Most impressive

[Ian]

excellent pic.

One of the hardest decisions to take processing these sorts of images is to make it small. I think your image illustrates why it's a good idea. It looks extremely crisp.

The colour balance is good too, are you using an IR block or adjusting after in Photoshop?

[Rocket Pooch]

This one was with a Astronomik IR filter, 5FPS 600 frames, 900mm F4.4 Europa with JP's 3xTal Barlow with no other changes at all.

Infact I did not remove any burry frames bacause there wasn't any.  The telescope web cam etc were cooled down for about 2 hours prior to use I think this helped.  Also it was the less twinkly night I've seen for a longt time.

Strangely enough, I have four AVI's with Jupiter and these seem unusable, despite the fact I collected them with the same setup on the same night.

I did blow this image up 2x and it does not remove much detail, but I like it as it is.  The thing I was most happy about is the banding on the planet, I havent got anything like this out of the other images before.

This was my third attempt, so now I suppose I should pick another object.  But by god that night Saturn was pretty as hell although I knew what I was looking at I definately could see ring and planet detail easily in a 6mm eyepiece.

Lastly I tried to find m51 that night and after 2 hours in the cold I came back in doors at 2:30am, brrrr.

Just hope next week is clear.

[Whitters]

Chris,
Was Jupiter in the same area of sky as Saturn, was it lower down or near a roof, or anything that may have still been conducting heat?

[Rocket Pooch]

It was probably about 45 degrees up in the sky, the AVI files look ok, but when there processed there not good.  Basically I think there either over or under exposed, depending on your viewpoint.

When its clera again I'll have a god when Jupiter is at 90% and play with the framing rates.

I did accidently learn a brill way to get the clearest frames from an AVI yeaterday by using AstroVideo and Registax, i'll show you at the DSC next week.

[Whitters]

Nice one

[Rick]

Ah! Just figured why the image won'd display on my PC at work... It's got a .bmp suffix, and the browser doesn't know what to do....

For images, JPEG (with a .jpg suffix) is generally the most-likely to work, with GIF (.gif) a close second, and PNG (.png) a definite third. Anything else should be avoided if at all possible.