Robert_T
30-04-2008, 07:59 AM
Hi All,
After a more than 12 month hiatus in my planetary imaging I was lured from bed early Sunday morning to give Jove a go... to say I was unprepared is an understatement.
My slick routine of old has dissolved into blank staring at bits of plumbing, filters, power cables (of which there were too many for my available sockets) and dohickkeys, wondering what goes where. I honestly couldn't remember where in the sequence of mirro flip diagonal, filter wheel, camera and barlow to actually place the barlow ... IC capture just seemed like a bewildering array of numbers with no purpose. I struggled on.
Seeing has something apparently to do with how wobbly things look on the screen. Well the best I can say is it it looked a bit wobbly with little detail apparent and focussing a nightmare of guess work (thank god for a shadow transit!). What this amounted to out of 10 I'm not so sure, maybe a 4-5/10
Anyway, the upside is everything appeared at least to work. I'm sure there must have been some developments though in firmware for the DMK and post-processing that I could do well to get across.
I managed to get through the processing hurdles and pulled a couple of images together below about 30 minutes apart. Not exactly impressive, but perhaps the first tentative step in getting back on top of this stuff as the Jupiter season unfurls.
cheers guys,
Rob
After a more than 12 month hiatus in my planetary imaging I was lured from bed early Sunday morning to give Jove a go... to say I was unprepared is an understatement.
My slick routine of old has dissolved into blank staring at bits of plumbing, filters, power cables (of which there were too many for my available sockets) and dohickkeys, wondering what goes where. I honestly couldn't remember where in the sequence of mirro flip diagonal, filter wheel, camera and barlow to actually place the barlow ... IC capture just seemed like a bewildering array of numbers with no purpose. I struggled on.
Seeing has something apparently to do with how wobbly things look on the screen. Well the best I can say is it it looked a bit wobbly with little detail apparent and focussing a nightmare of guess work (thank god for a shadow transit!). What this amounted to out of 10 I'm not so sure, maybe a 4-5/10
Anyway, the upside is everything appeared at least to work. I'm sure there must have been some developments though in firmware for the DMK and post-processing that I could do well to get across.
I managed to get through the processing hurdles and pulled a couple of images together below about 30 minutes apart. Not exactly impressive, but perhaps the first tentative step in getting back on top of this stuff as the Jupiter season unfurls.
cheers guys,
Rob