Jupiter on Aug 31 and a Registax request!

[Doodles23]

In Miami we were finally blessed with good seeing last weekend and my wife Gail managed to get this shot. She did the processing herself using the Mac software AstroIIDC. What I really would appreciate is for one of the pros on this forum to take my movies and process the same RGB set to produce a comparative Registrax image. To do this I must first convert the Quicktime movies to .avi files. The quicktime files are uncompressed and ideally I could make 350 MB .avi files out of the 350 MB quicktime files. But asking someone to download a GB of data from my server is simply asking too much. So I could compress the .avi a little using Divx or XVID to get the size down to an agreed upon point for downloading. The files can be uploaded to my Mac Server. Perhaps 50 MB file size each would be doable for these files containing 1200 frames. Then we can see once and for all what the PC and MacOS processed RGB composite images look like.

Also which Jupiter do you like the best, the "hard" one on the left or the "soft" one on the right?

[iceman]

I'd probably go somewhere between the two, Dave.

Lovely image though, some excellent detail.

I'd be happy to have a go at processing your raw data. I certainly haven't captured any good data of my own in the last 18 months LOL

Why is the raw data a quicktime movie? Didn't they record as avi straight out of the DMK?
Have you tried compressing the avi using winzip? ie: just compressing the file.

[Lester]

Nice images Dave.

[Kirkus]

The software Dave and Gail used, AstroIIDC (Mac), records the video in Quicktime format.

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Dave, I'd be curious to know if you and Gail have tried Lynkeos (http://lynkeos.sourceforge.net/) to process your videos. Although I'm nowhere close to producing what you do, I do have experience with both AstroIIDC and Lynkeos. I prefer Lynkeos only because it's not quite as convoluted (to me, anyway) as AstroIIDC.

[Quark]

Good effort Dave and Gail,

Personally I prefer the one on the left and not sure if there is enough difference between them to class the two as hard or soft.
How you like the final look of planetary images is a very subjective topic.
Whatever pleases you the most is what is best for you.

It really comes down to whether you are trying to produce data that scientific measurements can be made from or images that are of aesthetic value to you. That said there are a few planetary imagers that have the rare gift of being able to produce stunning images that are of scientific value.

Regards
Trevor

[alphajuno]

Nice pics. I sent you a PM with an offer to process in Registax. I'll take the same size as you prepare for Mike. I haven't been able to get my scope out so processing is the next best thing... (oh - but I'm no pro, lol)

Dave

[sheeny]

Nice work.

I'm a fence sitter too... somewhere between the two is what I think I'd like best.

Al.

[Doodles23]

I found Lynkeos to be ultimately unusable with it's touchy controls and its tendency to crash.

[Doodles23]

I'll do the conversion and upload a set of RGB files by the weekend. Then I"ll notify you and Mike where the files are to download.

[Doodles23]

18 months?!?! Are you serious? Partly cloudy skies with zero chance of rain forecasted this weekend for Gosford. A mild 12 deg C at nite. Surely the clouds will evaporate for some astrophotography! Or maybe you are referring to nights of good seeing. And here I thought Australia was a star gazers paradise. Oh well, time to get back to watching the hurricanes that are heading for South Florida as I write this at 3 AM your time.

[Kirkus]

Yeowza! I'm surprised to hear that. I've never had a problem with it. Oh well. Good luck.