Jupiter from the 16th (seeing 6/10)

[iceman]

Hi all

Here's an image taken on Friday night in 6/10 seeing. Unfortunately it's exactly the same face I took last Wednesday, and even more unfortunate, is that the seeing was worse therefore so is the image.

Another 10 avi's, another animation.

Jupiter animation 16th June (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/downloads/20060616-jupiter_anim.gif) (430k gif)

Attached below is the best of them.

Each image was taken @ 5fps for 120 seconds. Usual processing.

[Lester]

Lovely detail and colour there Mike.

[Lester]

Just saw the animation,

Very nice. The seeing stayed constant during your entire capture.

Thanks Mike.

[Dennis]

Great image and animation Mike - you're getting good at this!

Cheers

Dennis

[Robert_T]

Still a very fine image by any measure.:thumbsup:

it's been a long while since I've had anything this good:sadeyes:

cheers,

[ving]

maybe you answered this before but what do the p and s stand for?

nice image btw :)

[iceman]

I answered it in the other thread you asked in :)

S is for South (facing up)
P is for preceding limb (as opposed to F which would be facing limb)

[ving]

i thought you might have, but i'll be buggered if i can find it :P

thanks mike :)

[matt]

Sorry if you've already posted this somewhere Mike...

but what's your "usual processing"???

Cheers:thumbsup:

[iceman]

The same as I always do (the tutorial is slowly coming along :P)

1. Capture avi
2. virtualdub avi into BMP's
3. ppmcentre on the BMP's (crop, centre, rank)
4. netpbm tools (split BMP's) into r/g/b channels
5. run each channel through registax and stack, mild wavelets
6. AstraImage, LR deconvolution on each channel
7. AstraImage, recombine back to a colour image, gamma reduction (70%)
8. Photoshop, curves and mild unsharp mask, colour balance if necessary.

That's it!

[matt]

Again ... many thanks.

That's very kind of you. Not all top-level imagers are as free and open with their "secret recipe" as you, and others on this site.

Is it any wonder IIS is where it's at today;)

[iceman]

No problems mate.. I don't believe in keeping secrets. If others can get better images as a result of my experience, then it's gotta be a good thing for astronomy and astrophotography in Australia.

Plus, it was the helpfulness and openness of people like Anthony Wesley that helped me to improve my skills. I feel I can only but repay the favour by helping others too.

[spacezebra]

Hi Mike

I would interested in seeing the tutorial when released. I am interested in the various software packages that you use and what particular aspects of them make them unique.

Cheers Petra

[iceman]

No problems Petra, it will be publicly available.