iceman
30-05-2005, 09:15 AM
Hi all.
Had another night of good seeing last night, and so was able to capture some more Jupiter which rivals my best image on the 20th of May (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2185).
Played with a few different settings, and pulled the barlow and ToUcam out as far as I could to increase focal length and image scale. In what must be considered good luck, my last set of avi's and settings for the night turned out to be the best of the bunch. Had I stopped a few minutes earlier, I would not have reached the potential that the night offered! :)
Details:
- 10" dob (no tracking) with ToUcam Pro 840k
- Seeing: 7.5/10, Transparency: 8.5/10
- Capture settings: 5fps, 1/33s exp., 10% gain, 0 gamma
- FL approx 3100mm, with 2.4x barlow pulled out and ToUcam pulled out.
Processing:
- Approx 120 frames (out of 260) stacked and wavelets processed in registax
- LR deconvolution applied in AstraImage, unsharp mask
- The top right is 1.5x resampled, and below it is 70% of the original size.
I'm pretty happy with the nights efforts, would've liked to keep imaging until the GRS crossed the meridian, but my wife wanted me to come inside and watch the end of My Restaurant Rules with her :)
EQ tracking platform should arrive within the next 7 days! :jump:
Comments and feedback always welcomed.
Had another night of good seeing last night, and so was able to capture some more Jupiter which rivals my best image on the 20th of May (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2185).
Played with a few different settings, and pulled the barlow and ToUcam out as far as I could to increase focal length and image scale. In what must be considered good luck, my last set of avi's and settings for the night turned out to be the best of the bunch. Had I stopped a few minutes earlier, I would not have reached the potential that the night offered! :)
Details:
- 10" dob (no tracking) with ToUcam Pro 840k
- Seeing: 7.5/10, Transparency: 8.5/10
- Capture settings: 5fps, 1/33s exp., 10% gain, 0 gamma
- FL approx 3100mm, with 2.4x barlow pulled out and ToUcam pulled out.
Processing:
- Approx 120 frames (out of 260) stacked and wavelets processed in registax
- LR deconvolution applied in AstraImage, unsharp mask
- The top right is 1.5x resampled, and below it is 70% of the original size.
I'm pretty happy with the nights efforts, would've liked to keep imaging until the GRS crossed the meridian, but my wife wanted me to come inside and watch the end of My Restaurant Rules with her :)
EQ tracking platform should arrive within the next 7 days! :jump:
Comments and feedback always welcomed.