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bird
12-04-2007, 09:50 AM
The problem with buying a larger hard disk for my laptop is that I now have 120Gb of data to offload and process, instead of 90 Gb :-(

At least I got about 3 hours of imaging before this one filled up.

About halfway through the session I went a bit silly and cranked on even more focal length, the last half of the isession was done at a focal length of 14.6m, f/45. Jupiter was 400 pixels across :-) I guess I'll find out later if that was a good idea or not, but it seemed like a fun idea at the time...:eyepop:

Images coming soon.

Bird
iceman
12-04-2007, 09:55 AM
Awesome! Can't wait to see them.

Did you use the DX for them all, or did you try some with the DMK?
bird
12-04-2007, 10:38 AM
Mike, I didn't have the forumulas to convert the DMK register settings to actual gain and gamma, so I couldn't really set the cameras up the same.

btw I have that info now, it's available off the TIS website here for those who own DMK21AF04 cameras:

ftp://tis_ftp:Imaging199@ftp.theimagingso urce.com/Imaging/3963c1/manual.user.pdf

For some bizarre reason this is not listed in the "resources" or "downloads" areas on their site...

Bird
bird
12-04-2007, 03:24 PM
Here's one of the f/45 images, not sure I'll keep trying this extreme setting, but it came out ok.

cheers, Bird
iceman
12-04-2007, 03:31 PM
Incredible! What's happening to Jupiter!? It's so diffeernt than last year.
bluescope
12-04-2007, 03:42 PM
Jovian warming maybe :rofl:
Dennis
12-04-2007, 03:51 PM
Nice work Anthony - I'm running out of superlatives for these astonishing images!

Cheers

Dennis
davidpretorius
12-04-2007, 06:15 PM
so that is why i bought the bloody 24" screen.................just so bloody bird can fill it chocka block!


awesome awesome awesome!!!
John K
12-04-2007, 06:59 PM
That's another excellent image Anthony, and f/45 is just unheard of!
bird
12-04-2007, 07:09 PM
yeah, probably for a good reason... and when the sun came up I discovered that we were covered in smoke haze, might explain why things were a lot dimmer that I thought should be...

I'm back out here again tonight, we've got the phone and adsl connected at the new place - internode is a very nice ISP :-) so I'll be browsing for a while before getting some shuteye with the alarm set for 1.30 tomorrow morning.

Still lots of smoke haze around, hope it buggers off before 3am tomorrow morning...

Bird
matt
12-04-2007, 07:18 PM
Where's this smoke coming from, Anthony?
JohnG
12-04-2007, 07:43 PM
There is a big burn off going on down near the border with NPWS, been affecting us on the coast for the last two weeks or so, been really bad here. :mad2:

Cheers

JohnG
matt
12-04-2007, 08:07 PM
:mad2:
DobDobDob
12-04-2007, 08:16 PM
Are they burning off whacky tobaccky :P
iceman
12-04-2007, 08:18 PM
I've setup tonight as well! And then in the morning, will pack it away in the car for SPSP! :)
matt
12-04-2007, 08:22 PM
Yep. Am set up too
bird
13-04-2007, 08:15 PM
Have fun at SPSP!

Last night was pretty good, got a couple of runs that I'm going to keep for sure...

And now I'm back here again Friday night... I think I've seen my wife (Leisa) for about 2 hours in the last 3 days...

Fingers crossed for another clear night, I've bought another 300Gb disk out tonight to help, I'm seriously up to my eyeballs in data.

Bird