Saturn 28th Nov.

[asimov]

Finally got you! She's been quite elusive, at 3am onwards here it's either been cloudy/fog/windy/crook seeing. It's nowhere near Bird quality though:)

What is that "scar" across the planets surface :confuse2: Could it be a registax anomaly.....:confuse3: I guess I'll find out soon, I have 5 more AVIs to go thru yet.

6" refractor + toucam. 639 frames stacked out of 1500.

[iceman]

Nice work asi.

The "scar" looks like a processing artifact, either from registax or jpeg compression.

[gbeal]

Nice work, not a "band or belt" is it?

[bird]

Nice image Asimov, better than the coulds and rain I have around here :-)

The circular "scar" is a processing artifact as Mike says. They happen when you stack and process a lot of images that are heavily compressed and registax "sees" the compresion errors as if they were real data.

regards, Bird

[iceman]

Asi, Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing?

The darker belt that runs across the middle of planet is a feature.. the artifact that Bird and I are referring to is the circular line that runs around the outside of the disc.

[RB]

That's a wonderful image Asi, I'd be wrapped with that one mate.
Can't wait to have a decent crack at ol' Ringo myself.

I was going to say the same thing as ICE and Bird, the dark belt across the face is a feature.
I assume you refer to the circular line around the planet's edge.
This asside, the image looks great on my CRT monitor.

Cheers

[davidpretorius]

great work,

sorry, but you seemed to have found out where i do my burnouts and circle work late at night when there is cloud here in tassie. sorry for stuffing up your image.

i have just posted my poor cousin version, but look out - I will have tracking soon!!!!

Mr refractor seems great with the colour on saturn!!!!

top stuff

[Exfso]

Looking the goods mate.

:)

[rumples riot]

Nice stuff, keep em coming.

[asimov]

Thanks guys. Don't worry, yes I meant the circular line around the globe too. ;) My next image has the same kind of thing, only it's turned into what you would think to be a shadow!!? Is there a way around this??
Me no like it! :help:
stack less frames?
How does one get less compression?

Davo your naughty! :confuse3: Got the parcel today, cheers!:)

[davidpretorius]

hee hee, just looking out for your ep's and want to treat them with the respect they deserve!

by the way, i have an old pair of jeans to clean em' with


compression, what frame rate are you recording at, what software are you using to record your avis.

that phillips software, i would change at the panel to 5 or 10fps, change the other option to 5 or 15fps and then in bink and smacker it would say 15fps!!!!

qfocus, iris & k3ccd all allow you to change the fps at the screen, without going into the back ground setting of the toucam.


I say old man, you have got the biggest value out of your new toy!!! How many hours have you used it!!!! Best money you ever spent outside of engagement rings (just in case micki is looking over your shoulder!!!)

[rumples riot]

Asi, drop the rate at which your capture frames. Just as Dave said. I usually capture at 10fps and on exceptional nights I capture at 5 fps.

[Striker]

Great work Asimov.

You should be happy with that result.

BTW Asimov....have you got a name...dont be shy...I would prefer to call you by your real name....and as long as it's not Nigel....joking about all the Nigels out there...jokes.

[davidpretorius]

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[asimov]

They were taken at 10 FPS.

Hey Tony, I used to have my real name in my signature but everyone still called me asimov. It's John.

Actually I don't use the toUcam that much. Every oportunity I get obviously, but even when I do it's only about an hour out there at the most then it's pack up & start processing quick!! Time stacking & processing takes up quite a lot of my time.

I don't think the laptop is up to any more programs Dave. I'm running at 35% free space on C: as it is....But I could be wrong! Perhaps it will take one of those 3 you mentioned!? Advise needed in that area.

[davidpretorius]

10fps, i am thinking it is registax 2.0 then

bugga!!!

or have you got a memory stick and transferring to the big puter and processing it in registax 3.0 and still getting probs?

how much space do you have left???

[asimov]

Yes mate. My next port of call is either a memory stick or an external hard drive. Yeah I'm still doing the stacking in registax 2 on the lappy. Space left on which computer? 35% free on the lappy. Plenty on the main puter.

[atalas]

Nice shot dude !

[asimov]

Taa Louie.

[asimov]

Been rotten weather here since I took these shots above, so I thought I'd have another go at stacking the same AVI of saturn that the pics above came from. This time I carefully weeded out all the bad frames visually & ended up with a stack of 79 out of 1500. Mucked about with saturation/RGB split..blah blah as well.

[iceman]

Seems to be lacking colour, but it's nice and sharp! Well done!

[davidpretorius]

your focus is very good, i will have a few tweaks of the colour.

enjoyed catching up on the phone yesterday!!

[asimov]

Yes Mike, it is lacking colour. The thing with me is I really don't like the green rings! Their supposed to be blue but I can't seem to get that using the refractor. Oh well.

Dave...me too. Thanks.

[ving]

gah! refractors hey.... what can ya do :P
lookin sharp jhn :)

[asimov]

Ta Ving...I spend at least 15-20 mins on trying to get the sharpest focus I can get.

As I think I mentioned in another thread somewhere, I usually goto the nearest star & focus on that & then go back to the planet & ignore what the planet looks like on the laptop....sometimes it will look out of focus even after knowing you have good focus from using the star. Seeing conditions no doubt come into play here perhaps.

[Robert_T]

Hi Asi - how did I miss this one. You're doing marvels with that 6in refractor:prey2:

It's so sharp and hardly a trace of chromatic aberation at all - beautiful stuff!

cheers,

[asimov]

That comes from being a collimation MANIAC Robert!! (yes even on a refractor I spend over 50% of the time tweaking collimation) :lol: ......:confuse3: .....:help: ...:)