Saturn from 8th & Reprocess of Jupiter from 7th

[davidpretorius]

Saturn from last night @ 1/25, 75%, @10fps. 1083 out of 1800 frames. Seeing was very good 7/10
Jupiter from the night before @ 25% 10fps, taken at 320x200 video mode (an oversight) and resampled in registax @ 2x, 1774 frames

i have each with no wavelets, soft wavelets, medium wavelets, hard wavelets.

no other processing in astra image, so please feel free to have a go.

[asimov]

Wow mate Very nice! All hail the new planet masterrrr! :prey2: :prey2:

You made the most outa that sucker hole in the jetstream this morning over Tassie did'nt you! You lucky toUcam operator you!

Lucky to be 3/10 here last night, but I'm stacking saturn as I type this in any case, they should turn out lovely! :sad:

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

Jupiter has suffered due to your..ahem...slight oversight reported in a previous post, but the Saturns look great. I prefer the last one.

Cheers

Dennis

[asimov]

I tried reprocessing Joop but got the dreaded onion ring effect.

[asimov]

Had a play with your #2 Saturn. I have no 'official' astro-piccy manipulation programs but it's the best I could do with pic publisher 8.

[asimov]

And Joop 2.

[Robert_T]

nice shots DP (and nice reprocess too Asi). Plenty of equatorial detail, festoons and such on joops and nice warn colour on saturn's globe :)

[davidpretorius]

thanks guys, will try again tonight.

getting up to the iis . transit thingy and making sure i take lots of 120 sec videos.

i will cross my fingers that i can resolve io, but who knows????

[beren]

Wow Dav , very nice well done :)

[iceman]

Excellent work Dave, well done!

[matt]

Nice Dave, very nice.

Really appreciate your thorough posts re: capture details etc

Keep it going!!!!:)

[davidpretorius]

thanks all for feedback, i have even got the "e" as in excellent from the boss (iceman)!!!!

scuse me while i go and strut around the office for an hour or two!!!

[ving]

A+ from the vingmiester :D

good stuff davo!

[davidpretorius]

more strutting to do.......an a+ from vingo!!!!

[gbeal]

Nice shots Dave, better to come for sure, but every dud night is a great night to master the settings.
The driven dob?
Gary

[davidpretorius]

you betcha gary, the driven dob!!!!

works a treat. hand controller at the moment, and i have played with the goto and a laptop, but i have to fine tune the calibration etc.

but at the moment, find the planet, start tracking, spend roughly 3 or 4 minutes refining the track and then guide it.

At 1000x magnification, i am very happy in both directions. The AZ bearing is the biggest so saturn at transit is super smooth on the screen and i am very happy with the smaller 6" alt bearing tracking with jupiter at the moment as it rises etc.

Basically it simply works, best $$ i have spent. The whole setup now is so easy, that i wheel it out on the dob buggy and within 5 minutes, i am tracking a planet at 1000x.

Cooling the mirror is next, i have ordered some peltiers and i have bought a large ball bearing fan like what comes on the bintel 12" dobs.

As you can see from my ramblings, i am very happy.

[gbeal]

Great Dave,
Glad it worked as you wanted. The ability to track and image with the dob is simply awesome.
Gary

[RB]

Dave, you put a smile on my face today, thank you for those great shots.
I love em.

Well done my friend, top marks.

:drink:

PS nice reprocessing too John.