Jupiter from Melbourne this evening

[John K]

With the temperature droping constantly, seeing got at best to 6/10 tonight in Melbourne, and the colder it got the worse the temperature differential and the seeing appeared to get.

2 images attached one with ME Deconvolution (left) and the other with LR Deconvolution (right), otherwise my current standard processing was used: AVI split into R, G, B, 150-250 frames stacked and processed in Registax and then re-processed and recombined in Astra Image and gamma adjusted to 0.9.

One interesting thing I am finding is that there is no need to change contrast, brightness, or intensity settings at all if the capture settings on the camera are good. Choosing the same reference fram also means nil manipulation in RGB combine in AstraImage.

The images were not sharp enough to resample to a larger size, so they are at 100% as with the 5 x Powermate.

With a High comming over the Easter States, hope everyone's got some AVI's this evening.

John.

[iceman]

Very nice, John! I think the colour could do with a little less blue, but it's a magnificent large image with loads of detail.

Well done.

[davidpretorius]

i find a auto colour in photoshop balances my colours nicely and automatically.

have a try of exponential instead of gaussian me / lr deconvolution, it makes some differing effects, not sure if they are better or not

[matt]

Yep. Very nice.

As Mike says, a little too much blue but that's easily fixed.

Well done:thumbsup:

[Lester]

Nice amount of detail there John.

What fps did you use? I have found with the neximage that 5 fps is the best.

[matt]

5fps if the seeing allows. But it's handy to capture more fps in less than great seeing so you've got a few more frames to play with in registax.

10fps also doesn't seem as damaging (compression) to the data as going higher to 15fps.:)

[sheeny]

Love the detail.

Al.

[John K]

Whilst I am still waiting for a new Tou Cam after selling the NexImage, I have been reprocessing some of my AVI's, here is the one from May 20th.

It has been resampled at 1.4 using Bell, 150 frames in RGB, then Astra Image using ME Deconvolution (5 / 1.4) and some slight adjustments in colour tone, contrast, brightness and unsharp masking. Have gone a bit softer on the wavelets and possibly selected a better reference frame which I think has resulted in a smoother image.
Comments welcome!

p.s. Lester, never had any success at 5fps with my NexImage, not enought frames with the seeing at my location and they were always blurred, had better success at 15fps