Jupiter 2nd March with the ETX125

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

Draft image of Jupiter last night.



Bagged it at last

[JohnP]

Tremendous & you got the GRS as well. Are these with your new camera or webcam?

John

[Rocket Pooch]

No its with the Vesta 680k and the societies etx with its wibble mount

I never knew I have so much patience with a mount.  If I put that OTA on my EQ5 I'd be able to get a full 2:30mins on Jupiter at least.

[Mike]

Chris,

That image is awesome !! I would appreciate the full technical details of how you captured the image and what processing you did please.

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi Mike,

I used the Meade ETX125 with a Meade 2x barlow, Vesta Pro 680, Astronomik IR filter.  Taken 23:29 on the 2004-03-02 in my back garden with the football field flood lights on.

I focused on the moons, not the planet.  And then set the web cam to 5fps, no compression, no gamma, 1/50th second and 50% gain and took a 1:38 exposure, I did not take a longer exposure because the mount was jumping about every 1:45.  This gave me 490 frames to play with.  


Then into Registax set the alignment to 17 pixels quality filter 1 - 8, I aligned it with a 128 pixel alignment.  I then aligned only and slid the quality filter down to exclude the highest difference frames (sounds daft) and was left with 432 frames.  Then I stacked them.

Then into Mr Wavelette Filter and set them to approx 10,8,1,6,22,29 then fiddled with the contrast a bit.  No playing with any sharp or unsharp masks.

The size is the same as the raw AVI frames.

Is that enough?

BTW it was -5 when I got in and I cooled the Meade, Barlow, Vest Pro, etc down for 1 and a half hours before use.

[ This Message was edited by: csuddell on 2004-03-02 17:22 ]

[Rick]

Looks good. What did the intermediate results look like, particularly just before the final filter?

[Rocket Pooch]

The Raw Frames looked like this: -

[Rocket Pooch]

Stacked and non-wavelette processed: -

[Rick]

Right. So the wavelet processing is what's revealing the detail then. Interesting. Any details on the algorithms used?

[Whitters]

Chris well done that is fantastic. You should show those images at the next members meeting.

[Rocket Pooch]

If you guys are brave enough to put up with me standing up there doing a presentation on the planetary imaging then fine I'll do a half an hour session at one of the meetings.

I do have samples from my first attempts to these ones and some others as well.  

I also have some of the other utilities to manipulate the Deep Sky images as well.  Maybe this could be combined with a Photoshop session from Greg?

BTW who is our new leader?

[Ian]

Paul is now Chairman and Mike is Vice Chairman. I think Mike has a number of vices to be getting along with, but any additional ones will be gratefully received.

[Rocket Pooch]

All hail Paul!!!!!

All hail Mike!!!!!