Hey Anthony, my wife (who's Polish) tells me that you've featured in the Polish press today as well. It sure is international attention that you're getting! Great stuff!
Heads up... Channel 10 at about 7pm, Dave and co. on the 7pm project
Thanks for that!
By the time I get home from work I miss all the 'normal' news, have missed ALL media of this so far(except IIS )
Get home just in time for this tho.. thanks!
Simo
Slowly coming back down to earth now, maybe life can return to normal.
ps it's a howling storm outside as I write this, with gale force winds and sleet, torrential rain... I guess no imaging tonight...
Fahim, I use -resample=3 in ninox on my data before I load it into registax, and also -cut=460 to cut a 460x460 piece from the original data with Jupiter centered.
After the resampling the images are 1380x1380, and I use multipoint alignment in registax. Takes *forever*.
When registax is finished with it I downsample it back to the original size, but the end result is that registax is effectively doing 1/3 pixel alignment.
Trying to image Jupiter at the moment from BrisVegas and its just boiling at the moment. I'll keep going til 1?:00 am and then see what I have. Bird you were great to image what you did - Ill be lucky to see anything with this Jetstream over us.
You deserve all praise and attention you are getting for the great job you have done for ameurs in the year of astronomy.
Trying to image Jupiter at the moment from BrisVegas and its just boiling at the moment. I'll keep going til 1?:00 am and then see what I have. Bird you were great to image what you did - Ill be lucky to see anything with this Jetstream over us.
You deserve all praise and attention you are getting for the great job you have done for ameurs in the year of astronomy.
Hi Allan
I hear you! I'm looking at Jupiter on screen as if I was looking through the heat haze over a roaring fire! I removed the DBK21 (colour) and replaced it with the more sensitive DMK21 (mono) to increase frame rate (30 to 60fps) and exposure from 1/60 to 1/180 and it didn’t really help.
Like you, I’ll hang in a while, having got this far!
Well I have just seen a moon come off Jupiter's face but its sure boiling and its hard to know the point of best focus. Im using an old toucam to image with and an 8' WITH 2X barlow. Guess Ill have to wait and see what I have when I process them. Dennis, I may have to PM you to see how to put this into a movie if it turns out at all. Anyway its a good way to finish off my birthday!
Here is a stack of 290 frames from 3000, straight out of Registax showing the pretty awful conditions. It’s a real pity that the seeing is so atrocious, as we have the Bird Strike, the GRS, Ganymede and Europa all in the same frame!
I wonder if Matt is faring any better, with the really smooth seeing by the bayside! LOL!
So richly deserved that you were the one to record the very first image of the impact on Jupiter considering the many years you have dedicated in recording some of the very best images of Jupiter ever taken by an amateur astronomer.
We have enjoyed keeping up to date with all the links provided on this thread
Loved the ABC interview and watched the 7pm project interview tonight which was a bit short.
Nice one Allen, and thanks to everyone again for their comments... finished for tonight finally. Will be on RN tomorrow morning at 8.45 I think... and then it all starts again :-)
Well at least I got to image it. Have to wait til the jetstream dissappears for anything better, but by then Bird's strike will probably dissipated. I suppose it could be cloudy or raining. Ill give it about another 1/2 hr and then pack up
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Wonder no more...ye merry jester...for my seeing be the same as yourn!!!!!
