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Dennis
12-08-2006, 09:22 AM
Hello,

After a long time playing hide and seek with the jet stream, more hide than seek, the seeing turned very good again late last night/early this morning.

Here is one of the better avi's of Posidonius. Captured in K3CCDTools, processed in Registax.

C9.25, Televue x2.5 Powermate, Philips ToUcam 840K.
84 frames from 1800. Wavelet 1=20.
1/33 sec at 5fps.

Cheers

Dennis

[1ponders]
12-08-2006, 09:27 AM
Nice catch Dennis.:thumbsup:

It wasn't too bad around midnight last night, not great but it tempted me enough to stay outside :lol:



Did you get that intermittent cloud :mad2:

Dennis
12-08-2006, 09:31 AM
Hi Paul

Yes - the waves of cloud began to roll through around 1:00am so at 1:30am I decided to pack up even though it was still possible to grab a few 100 frames at a time between cloud sets. What was interesting is that when the clouds were scudding across the image on the notebook computer, the seeing did not take a big hit, apart from the image dimming.

What did you get up to last night/this morning?

Cheers

Dennis

[1ponders]
12-08-2006, 09:54 AM
I grabbed a few Neptune and Uranus with the 300D. My uranus images were more washed out than my neptune images from the other night if possible. I'll see if I can make anything of them. After them I ran a few Avies of the moon with the hope of trying a Mike style mosaic with maybe a few less alignment points :P :lol: There brief instances of very good seeing, so I'll take my time processing them and see what I can come up with.

RB
12-08-2006, 09:56 AM
Well what do you know, water cannals on the moon !!! :whistle:

Beautiful image Dennis.

sheeny
12-08-2006, 05:15 PM
Good One Dennis!

Al.

mick pinner
12-08-2006, 05:49 PM
very nice moonage Dennis, any filters?

iceman
12-08-2006, 06:00 PM
Nice work Dennis, it's been ages since we've seen something lunarific from you!

Great to have you back.

beren
12-08-2006, 06:19 PM
:) Always good to see lunar imagery from you Dennis :thumbsup:

ballaratdragons
12-08-2006, 06:22 PM
Gee I hate those images that are optical illusions where you can't tell if the craters are outies or innies! :lol:

This one looks like an 'outie!'

Good shot Dennis :thumbsup:

Robert_T
12-08-2006, 06:31 PM
Ah Dennis, you haven't lost your touch! Great stuff:thumbsup:

Dennis
12-08-2006, 06:50 PM
Thanks Mick!

The only filter used on the ToUcam was the standard IR blocking filter. I think it is a Baader model that I purchased from York Optical in Brisbane, for around $60-$70.

Cheers

Dennis

Striker
13-08-2006, 06:47 AM
Thats another fine Image Dennis...nice job like usual.