Not in the same league, but DAMN, I'm happy!

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Everyone,

You may have missed it, but I have discovered the beauty of collimation by realising my problems were mainly due to the misalignment of the focuser tube. Once I packed it out on one screw a little but, it made a world of difference.

I just processed another one of my many captures from last night and after playing with some curves and some RGB levels in registax seemed to have nailed what I think is probably one of the best images my scope can produce.

I know its not gunna win many over, but geez I am happy. I actually processed the LR deconvolution and when it finished yelled, "holy crap!......holy crap! DETAILS!" :lol: :lol:

Can anyone tell I am happy?

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your reading time. :)

Cheers

Chris

[seeker372011]

umm..are you pleased with your result?

actually I really liked the smaller bmp

well done

[Screwdriverone]

Ha Ha Narayan!

Yes, well, I may have told you more than once. Looking at it again, the resized jpg is a bit blurry, the second bmp version is more natural and a better indication of what size it would really be from my scope.

Thanks for the kind words.

Cheers

Chris

[iceman]

The second one is definitely better - the first one is way oversized for the conditions. How much did you enlarge it?

Good quality, Chris. Nice colour and detail.

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Mike,

I removed the first one, it pretty much was the same data as the second one but for some silly reason I resized it 3x in Gimp but it just looked silly here so I binned it.

I used the 3x ED barlow here and as I said, once I packed out the focuser to line it up properly, jeez, what a difference!

Cheers

Chris

p.s added new image from previous captured avi same night and some moon data is showing!!!!! wooohhooooooo! :) :) :)

[AlexN]

nice going chris! looks really good.. :)

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop::thumbsup::thumbsup : well done chris
how did u manage to get a pic like that with your scope awsome so there is hope for me yet yayyyyyyyyyy ok what sort of cam did u use or was it from the toucam
good on ya Chris cheers
can i put on a 3x barlow on my scope too (cool i want one)

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Jen,

Thanks for the praise, its all about practice and getting the collimation right. Yes, the 3x ED barlow ($49 from Andrews comms) would work with your scope and all you really need is a toucam webcam (spc900nc) to get shots like this, however you will need to process these in registax too and post process later on.

Its a bit complicated, but worth it in the end.

Thanks Alex, I am getting there, more cash required to get bigger and better, but happy with what the piddly reflector can do now.

Cheers

Chris

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Again,

I just played with the same file I originally processed and posted it here for comparison.

For some reason I cant figure out, the original BMP now looks really bad? it seems to have lost the edges of the planet, and buggered if I know why it looks crap now but I was happy with it before????

I am sure it looked better before, and now I am confused. I reprocessed this stack again and either I was blind before, or I am getting better at processing and the original one I posted was yucky to begin with?

Dunno, anyhow, have a look, I think this one is much better than the first post.:shrug:

Cheers

Chris

[Jen]

:hi::hi:
Hey thanks Chris your welcome :thumbsup:i just hope santa is good to me this year :D:D haha i would love some more toys and skills to take nice pics later on down the track but first i better learn how to use the scope properly first hahaha :whistle::whistle:

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Jen,

Yeah you are probably right, have you had a chance to try the alignment and spin, or are you still "Jenhandling" the scope by picking it up and turning the whole thing around?

Chris

[AlexN]

chris, it seems in the second image that the focus may have been of just by the smigiest of smigens... although the second pic definitely has more detail..

Good going!

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Alex,

are you tralking about post #9 as the second pic?

When I look at all of them (by clicking on the last one I posted then pressing the traffic light looking button on the top right) it shows all of the images posted here one by one on the left and then when I compare them, the last one posted on #9 is MILES better than the first two.

Its funny, I thought the earlier ones were good, but now they just look crap?

Chris

[Jen]

Im still "jenhandling" :ashamed:
:scared3:
I think i will wait till summer when it is warmer outside instead of me freezing my butt off for an hour of trying to align something up :lol: it is much quicker to pick it up :D
:whistle::whistle:

[Screwdriverone]

FYI, I figured it out, monitor and video adaptor settings had gone screwy. Realised what it was when I looked at AlexN's Jupiter and it looked bad, knew then I had a problem with my PC coz his Joops never look bad like mine :lol:

Chris

[AlexN]

hah... no, my 2 recent ones were average :P might not be your pc :D

brisbanes typically horrible jetstream plagues me at the moment...
tonight seems better according to the map, so I'll be out for me vs joop - Round 2.

[Screwdriverone]

Bring it ON!

:) Chris