5june Jupiter C11

[Rigel003]

Hi all
taken earlier this evening. I"m experimenting with a higher gamma, higher gain and less processing. Seems to give a more natural look.Seeing about 6/10 in Adelaide tonight.

Graeme

[h0ughy]

looks good but looks like the top part is different to the bottom in processing? I might just be an optical illusion.

[davidpretorius]

Hey graeme, we imaged at almost the same time. Nice work. I like the lighter colouring ie natural look.

Congrats

[asimov]

Now thats a really nice shot Graeme.

Well done.

[h0ughy]

I apologise for commenting on your great image, sorry I posted above, David had exactly the image - two cant be wrong

[Rigel003]

Hi David. I really love the way you can take these images in your back yard, process them in 10 mins and be comparing them with the same picture taken by someone on a distant island (Tasmania) 10 mins later. :) Yours is amazing!

Graeme

[Rigel003]

The northern (bottom) half does look more colorful. The south temperate belt is more of featureless white compared with the bluish NTB. The SEB looks much more saturated too.

Graeme

[iceman]

Excellent image Graeme, well done! Lots of detail.

[Astroman]

I am glad someone had the nuts to go out lastnight, tooo cold for me. Looked really nice out there too. Another thing that kept me away was the GRS was on the other side of the planet :P

Great image real natural look to it not overly processed. U did well.

[Dennis]

Hi Graeme

Very nice image with heaps of detail, and great processing too! Well done!

Cheers

Dennis

[sheeny]

Interesting comment hOughy. I noticed a similar effect on some of my Jupiters last week (though they aren't in the same league!). I was playing around with gamma, trying to increase contrast in the cloud features, so of course any difference in colour between hemispheres would be enhanced too. You have an excellent eye for colour I'd say!:thumbsup:

Beautiful image BTW. Obviously aperture makes a difference - not to discount capture and processing skill!!!!:2thumbs: :bowdown:

Al.

[Robert_T]

Graeme, this is seriously very very good.:thumbsup: Fabulous detail with a smooth natural look. Hmmm... the C11 is looking very promising.

cheers,

[Lester]

Loads of detail there Graeme.

I think this C11 should out perform the 9.25s.

[davidpretorius]

and the meades :D, watch ut for asi's results with a c8!!

C14 is still looking good!

[Rigel003]

...if only it showed this kind of detail visually! I've never been entirely happy with the optics and it has a long cool-down time.

Graeme

[StargazerX1]

I don't believe the C11 necessarilly will outperform a 9.25. For one, the C11 is much more difficult to collimate well, and it also suffers from a much greater shift in collimation when one crosses over the meridian. The C11 will be better in great seeing (4-5 days a year?) if it is collimated with extreme care. I find it also useful to collimate my C11 at roughly the same elevation as the planet one is imaging, using the red filter in my filter wheel, at very hig mag.

But 90% of the time I would opt for the 9.25.

Glenn Jolly
Arizona, USA

[Lester]

Interesting stuff been said.

I guess for one, capturing and stacking many images of a planet will allways show more detail than we can see visually. :camera:

I don't find collimation a problem or scope temp. Usually the scope is within 2 degrees of ambient, and when I have cooled it to ambient or less, what I can see is still limited by the atmospherics.

But then I am not talking about a Celestron.:gday:

[Dennis]

Hi Glenn

Boy, was my wife glad to read your post. :lol: :lol:

Cheers

Dennis (C9.25 owner)