Mars, Saturn & Sun from Snake Valley

[davidpretorius]

Hi All,

here is my processed photos from snake valley

Transparency was 10/10
Seeing was veryclose to being 8/10

Boat about to dock so better log off and go to my car!

[RB]

Welcome back Davo, we've missed you.

Nice images dude.
What did you use for the sun images?

Mars and Saturn are good.
Do you have NEAT IMAGE (http://www.neatimage.com/)? I think it can help remove some noise from the images.

Keep up the good work.

[davidpretorius]

thanks,

conarado???? sun telescope of John's. There were about 10 of us focussing the unit and then changing contrasts etc and then processing on a projector screen. Great fun!

I do have neat image and i will give it a rip on the images later today once i have unpacked.

[ving]

(((davo!!!)))

welcome back to the land of the living :P

hey what did you use to take the sun pics?

[Starkler]

Coronado PST.
It was on an undriven eq mount, with a long cable to a laptop inside the building so that the laptop screen can be seen.

The second Sun pic is definately the best :)

[ving]

they certainly are pretty sweet! :)

[rumples riot]

Nice pics Dave, got your first colar images, Mars images are pretty good also. I think you had Saturn out of focus though. There is a small donut on the planet. Keep em coming.

[davidpretorius]

yes, it definately is, it was late at night, i was wrapped with mars and then i thought i would have a quick go at saturn.

I was also exhausted from the constant running over to bird's scope as he let out hollas of joy every 7 or 8 minutes!!

[RB]

I'm so glad you guys had a great time. We were worried the weather would ruin it for you.

Wish I was there to meet you guys.

:sad: :sad:

[beren]

:) Yeah top work Davo , the sun pics are great and your mars capture very good {have you tried sharpening it a little }

[Striker]

Well done Dave,

Sounds like all you guys and girls had a great time...I'm jealous.

[asimov]

Good STUFF Davo!!

[davidpretorius]

I sent asimov my ppmcentre'd bmp's and he had a crack at registax.

I love the result

[RB]

Very nice image indeed.
Well done

PS I liked your other signature too about how much your little girl loves you. :)

[ving]

ditto. it touched me and was incredibly cute... i vote to change it back. :)

thats a great image davo! :)

[rumples riot]

That image has improved a bit, nicely done Asi.

[asimov]

Hi.

She came up not too bad in the end Dave. Ended up cutting the bad frames out manually seeing there wasn't that many (cant remember how many frames now) I ended up stacking/processing all damn night on 7 AVIs I took.) Still in process & will post them soon.

Rumples, I'm having trouble with that damn bayer cross-hatch problem when resampling. Any advise? Cheers all.

I think your scope was out of collimation when you took that AVI perhaps Dave?

[asimov]

Heres some of mine I shot last night with the kodak & a CCD camera I have on loan..(still trying to get the hang of the ccd)

Two problems I have is image scale with the kodak, due to me now having to 'shoot between' 2 bits of stuff/dust/gunk on the sensor, & the colour in these pics....they ended up this colour because I was aiming at showing the surface details as best I could.

Probably my best mars pics yet I reckon! Pity about the image scale though, most annoying. (the last pic is from the CCD)

I declined on rotating them because somehow they turned to visual mush, not sure why.:confuse3:

[davidpretorius]

i reckon it is just the lack of being able to get at the exposure and gain settings on your ccd. the detail is there, but hard to squeeze out!!!

i hope your new toy arrives soon!!!!!! then look out!!!!

[asimov]

BTW Dave, that mars stack I did for U is straight outa registax, no proccessing in any other program....You could improve on that image I'd say!!

Yeah, camera settings on this CCD I have consists of contrast/brightness/colour & that's it. No gain or anything like that. Took me 15 mins to get it looking ok on the laptop screen, but still coughed up that less than average shot above.

[asimov]

I reworked it a bit Dave for something to do..RGB split & B channel lightened, recombined & unsharp mask/tone/cropped in picture publisher. Sharpening done in neatimage.

[bird]

Good work Asi, but where's the blue channel gone? There ought to be a blue north pole there somewhere...?

Bird

[asimov]

UUmm....errr.....It's locked in a box along with 'asimov's lack of registax knowledge' lol.

[LT_Ng]

I am sure all of you guys attending the star party in Snake Valley did enjoy very much and had got a very fruitful "imaging". For me living in a so air-polluted and light polluted city, I am very jealous to you.

Where is Snake Valley located? Far from Sydney or Brisbane? I think I have to visit it during my July holiday next year.

LT

[RAJAH235]

Hi LT. Snake Valley is in Ballarat, Victoria. About 150/200 klm n/west of Melbourne.
I think Ken has a map showing general area. KEN!!!!!
You would be most welcome. :D L.