Congrats Dennis!

[iceman]

I missed it because it was the weekend, but Dennis achieved 2 front-page pictures on SpaceWeather over the weekend.

If you go to spaceweather.com and choose 26th and 27th of May, there's Dennis' jupiter.

Pity they didn't use your best shots, Dennis. But still a fine achievement nonetheless :P

Well done.

[[1ponders]]

Congratualtions Dennis. Very deserving recognition for some outstand work over the past couple of months :clap::clap::clap:

[asimov]

Good one Dennis! :)

[h0ughy]

Congratulations on your double dipping Dennis!

[Striker]

Congrats Dennis...wow 2 in 2 days.

[Dennis]

Thanks Mike and IIS’ers

Yes – I was quite surprised as they were from a set of images I sent in a long time ago, around 11th April. I wondered what was going on as I suddenly started to receive a heap of e-mails from people asking about my special equipment and techniques!

A very polite gentleman from the Yokohama Science Center asked for permission to use the image and another guy sent me a link to Akira Inaka’s website, a Japanese 3-D specialist – well worth a look. Link below.

http://pro.tok2.com/~aq6a-ink/mac/usafr.htm

To answer some of the e-mails, it was very helpful to have Mike’s article on webcam imaging in the Projects, Articles, DIY Guides and How-To's section at:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=63,201,0,0,1,0

as I was able to point to this to dispel the myth surrounding the “special equipment and techniques” that I apparently have. I received a couple of grateful replies.

It was interesting to note that I received a couple of enquiries from amateurs with C11’s, giving me the impression that there are people out there with these high end telescopes who were not familiar with the art of webcam imaging.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

well done dennis, that 3d guy will have a ball!!

re your comment with the c11, i have got that feeling too. People in the UK could not believe what was possible for $2000 worth of equipment. Now i know we have jupiter nice and high, but I did not think it would be such a shock for so many.

I got an email from damian peach after there was a huge debate on the UK astro site about damian's "secret" ingredients, but again it seems to come down to you can't just go and buy a $10,000 scope and get a consisitantly great image. there is a learning curve, getting focus, collimation, knowing the seeing conditions and spending hours and hours out there in the dark waiting for a great 90 secs of fabtastic seeing!

I believe Bird and Mike's processing techniques are definately pushing the envelope around the globe for mediocre seeing conditions, but when it comes it great data, but as you know and mikes recent jupiter showed, then very little processing is required

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Hi David,

I was quite interested to read this long discussion. I see from my replies also this has generated a long discussion!. I think the problem is too many have never seen truely great seeing, and cant imagine that thier telescopes could produce something great. Who would have ever thought a C9.25 could produce what it has?. It just illustrates just how much the seeing affects what the telescope can do. Many also fail to realise that the processing is not the most important step when you have such seeing and can get really good data. Its much easier to believe there are magical processing routines to produce high quality work!.

Best Wishes

Damian
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