separate R,G,B reprocess of June 4 JUPITER

[Robert_T]

Hi All, don't normally bother with separate R,G,B unless the avis are pretty good. This one is marginal. There does seem to be a slight improvement - eg. slightly sharper in the R,G,B split process. The Joop at left is straight registax, the center one an R,G,B split processed separately in regsitax, the one at right is same but with soft-sharpen filter applied.

Anyway, something to keep the Jetstream blues at bay:D

cheers,

[Lester]

Hi Robert,

I think the one on the right has slightly more contrast between the detail. Don't think it has more detail, but it stands out more. Very nice indeed.

[Dennis]

Those are very nice images for a stack of 120! Quite remarkable detail considering the poor seeing. You should change your signature to "prolific planet processor" :D

Cheers

Dennis

[Robert_T]

not sure about "Prolific Planet Processor", but might have to lay down my self-proclaimed title of prolific planet poster to Lester if he doesn't settle down and divert himself with some deep sky :P

[Rigel003]

Very nice images, Robert. I'd vote for the middle one for detail although it's hard to isolate any particular feature that's visible in one and not the others. Is there a description of this separate RGB processing anywhere? Can you do this in Registax?

Graeme

[asimov]

The one on the left does it for me.

Nice work Robert!

[Lester]

Hi Robert,

I will be imaging Jupiter for a while yet. Should have the DFK week after next and I couldn't just put it in the draw till next planetary opposition.:lol:

[Robert_T]

Hi Graeme, the actual processing of each colour channel is done separately in registax, but first the avi needs to be split. I use a shareware program AVI Raw and then resave individual colour avis in another shareware program Virtual Dub so that Registax will take them. Finally I combine the three separate processed B&W images for each colour in Astra Image 2.0 for the final product. It sometimes yields much finer detail than combined colour processing, though often as in this case the improvements are subtle and probably not wort the extra bother.

cheers,

[Rigel003]

Thanks for the description, Robert. Sounds like a lot of work! I think I'll refine my basic techniques first.

Graeme

[RB]

Great work Robert, the right one looks best to me on my CRT.

Keep 'em coming my friend.