Jup Sunday 21st

[jjjnettie]

I pulled out the scope for the first time in over a week on Sunday. The night was terrific with no cloud and good seeing.
This is the best shot from the 17 avi's I took.
I trimmed it down to 330 frames with Virtual Dub and processed with Registax. Final tweaking in Photo Impression 2000.
It's the best detail I've gotten in the GRS yet. :)

[iceman]

Very nice jjj! Is it the camera that is not capturing the colour?

Does it have a saturation option?

[jjjnettie]

I can adjust the white balance, gain, exposure etc but nothing can coax the old girl (she must be at least 7 or 8 years old and one of the first digital video cameras out) to capture in colour. Only once did I get it, during the photo comp, but other than that, nothing.
But it's good practice for me to try to get the best greyscale images I can out of it.

[acropolite]

Nice effort jjj. I wonder if you could capture colour using filters???:confuse3:

[Chrissyo]

Nice shot! :) Have you tried playing with the brightness / contrast of the image in your picture editing program? I can usually force a bit of colour out of my bland images in photoshop with these controls. Keep up the good work :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Yup, tried that. What a hoot, juggling eps and filters in the dark. I was taking too long changing filters, keeping in mind Jup's fast rotation, so I ended up not actually screwing the filters in but using a little bluetak to stick them to the front surround of the ep then most carefulling butting the camera up to them.

I followed the article that Steve Massey wrote in his Night Sky book that explains how to process the pics, but no joy.

[Robert_T]

Hi jjjnettie, great stuff. I'm amazed you can get this sort of detail with a 7 year old camera. Just imagine if you were doing this 7 years ago - these images would be cover material for SKy and Telescope :D

cheers,

[ving]

2 right robert :)
great stuff jeanette :)

[jjjnettie]

Check this out. :D
If you guys weren't pushing me to try to get colour in the shot, I never would have come up with this!:thumbsup: