8th May Jupiter

[Lester]

Hi all,

Just a quicky from this morning, where the seeing was the best I had seen ever.

Got to race off to an appointment now, so will be back with some more.

[iceman]

Wow, looking really good Lester! Can't wait to see the rest from this session!

I tried at 2am but the seeing was horrible :(

[Marko of Oz]

What's the opposite of seeing? That's what I've got. I've started a collection of daily jetstream maps to prove to myself I'm not being overly paranoid.

Nice pic:thumbsup:

cheers

[Starkler]

Plenty of nice detail but whats causing the granular appearance?

[Dennis]

Hi Lester

Phew! That is a stunner! I reckon that is your best Jupiter so far and you’ve done a terrific job on all fronts; capture, image scale, processing, detail, etc. The detail in the smaller spots is quite sublime!

Top stuff!

Cheers

Dennis

[matt]

Same here, Marko:(

The jetstream has been parked over us for ages. It's been terrible.

But checking the jetsream maps (200/300mb)...it looks like Lester and all the guys down south ozzie way are in for a few nice nights.

Good luck folks!

[bird]

Lester, looking very very good!

cheers, Bird

[Robert_T]

That's got some amazing detail and so sharp Lester. I'm Jealous:D

[Lester]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

The process was done in a hurry and didn't have time to smooth it, so the granular look may be to slightly over doing it in the rush.

Yes we have got a few good days ahead of us down south by the jetstream map, so long as the fog stays away.

Will see if I can get some more processed before going out tonight.

[Lester]

Here is the same image, but just smoothed a bit in Neat-Image.

[iceman]

Great image, Lester! Can't wait to see the many tweaks.

[Lester]

Thanks Mike.

Here is a later avi, showing the GRS comming around the side; unfortunately the seeing wasn't as good as for the first image, but still good to what I have been use to.

[iceman]

A bit too much smoothing on that one, Lester. Looks a bit wishy washy now.

It's a fine art isn't it? Each avi has to be processed on its merits when the seeing changes during a session.

[Lester]

Yes agreed, will have to have another go. Out of Registax the image was no where near as sharp as the first image and I only smoothed it the same amount as the first.

So, like you said Mike each avi has to be processed on its merits.

Thanks for your comments, very helpfull.

[Lester]

Another from 8th of May, AVI number 14.

Captured at 5:37:06 CST

[Lester]

Reprocessed that last image to get rid of the virticle lines. They are caused by using too much waveletts in number 2 in Registax. Sometimes a good image can take number 2 waveletts, but in this case it cannot.

[edwardsdj]

Amazing images Lester :)

[Alchemy]

like the one back at post 10 .... feels like you can look throgh the cloud deck into the gaps....... lovely, very 3 dimensional.

[RB]

Fantastic work Lester.
I agree with Alchemy, I really like the one in post 10.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Lester]

Thanks again for your replies.

I don't usually do resamples as the seeing hasn't been good enough, but thought this image was worth a try.

So here is a 1.5 resample, and I think it turned out okay.

Comments welcome.

[Lester]

Here is a brighter version

[Lester]

Downsized and saturation reduced slightly.

[Lester]

Reprocessed and downsized more.

Don't think I could improve on this image.

Comments welcome.

[Lester]

Here is another avi processed from the 8th where the seeing was a constant 7/10 for over an hour.

There are still some avis that I will get to in the near future.

[iceman]

Nice work Lester, the last image is good too! I'm not a fan of the upsized ones here though, they lose too much crispness.