Jupiter & Saturn 25th from tassie

[davidpretorius]

What a night.

Started out with horrible twinkling for stars at 11pm, got up at 1.30pm and it was 5 or 6/10, so took a couple vids of saturn. got back up at 4.30am and watch it evolve from say 6/10 to 8 or 9/10. Did not want to move, breathe or do anything to make the seeing conditions change.

temps were stable at 7.5 degrees. I have taken video at 10fps, 15fps and 5fps and then because on the screen, it looked like 8 out of 10 frames were steady, i jumped into raw mode and then stood there breathless looking at the improvement on the screen. Io had transitted, but was still visible at the gain / exposure settings.

Well, i have lotsa video to process. Here are a 320x240 saturn, a 320x240 at a couple of wavelets settings jupiter and the first of the 640x480 at a couple of wavelets settings. they have all been run through registax to get a feel for the night. The seeing improved after these. you can see IO in the 640 x 480 at about 10 oclock

Joy Joy Joy. My best best catches

[iceman]

Looking great Dave, can't wait to see what the final result brings us.

[matt]

Very nice Dave!

Is that not only colour on Io but phase also, or just a little blurring giving that appearance???

Anyway, great shots. Can't wait to see the fully processed efforts:)

[gbeal]

Cracker shots Dave, it will be good to see the final results. Tracking, oops I mean seeing, is everything.

[davidpretorius]

here is a single image of the raw mode frames from the avis.


lovely stuff to work with, at times, the image hardly varied from this in sharpness and shape as the movie was taken.


seeing is king!

[RB]

Nice avi, that's a single frame, wow.
They've come up well David, your images are rocking, well done mate.
Do you have that avi stored somewhere where I can download it, i'd love to have a looksee.

:drink:

[ving]

well done dave!
seeing IS king! :D

[davidpretorius]

ok,

i have picked out the best avi and started to do a run thru registax.

i have zipped the 2min video up and it is 250 mbytes

please pm you address if you would like it on cdrom

i will have a 10 frame 5mbyte, 20 frame 9 mbyte and a 50 frame 21 mbyte zip file uploaded to my website soon after 1pm this arvo.

so download what size you are able and then pm if you want the entire run.

[davidpretorius]

http://precons.com/iis/gallery/Tracking/Planets/Jupiter/the download zips are here

here is a quick run through with registax, pretty much the entire 600 frames stacked, soft wavelets a maximum & 10x2 ME decnvolution unsharp mask gamma reduce, contrast reduce

[iceman]

Fantastic result Dave, easily your best.

Seeing is king, tracking helps :) That raw frame looks really good and is an indication of the good conditions you had.

I hope the conditions are as good at Lostock this weekend!

Top stuff.

[davidpretorius]

thanks mike, i am now starting on a more serious process ie r,g,b - more selective with the number of frames etc etc.

yes, i hope you guys get this type of weather, one out of the box!

[bird]

Wow DP, those are amazing - well done mate!

Bird

[Photon]

Nice work David!! I went out until about10:45pm but pretty blurry out there. That usually puts me off for the night, but boy I bet your glad you perservered!!

[davidpretorius]

hi ian,

11pm, bad, 1am good, 4am beautiful!!!

[davidpretorius]

http://precons.com/iis/gallery/Tracking/Planets/Jupiter/

i have added the .tiff files ini a zip file (aprox 8mb) it has the stacked versions with varying wavelets and also individual red green and blue with varying wavelets.

fell free to have play guys in astral image or whatever

[rumples riot]

Those last six are great Davo, I particularly like the top left one. Guess what colour I am. You are very lucky, we have had in Adelaide area nothing better than 4/10 for at least 6 months. I am so sick of this seeing that I am contemplating moving to another state on the east or west coast. Adelaide seems to constantly get crap seeing. Either I move or I sell all my scopes and pack it in. Sorry just venting some spleen.

[davidpretorius]

vent away my friend, but please download anything from that link to have a slight easing of the "crap weather" syndrome.

I do feel guilty a bit, you guys in SA don't seem to get the good ones!!

[fringe_dweller]

wow DP you have lifted the stakes my friend, Stunning!!, colour in Io too :prey2: youve earned it mate - top effort! :-))

Dont worry rumples weve had good years before - a long time ago now tho - but surely theyll come back? :confuse3:

[RB]

They're stunning David.
Your best yet, well done.

I'm so happy for you, you've really come a long way in such a short time.

Cheers
:drink:

[davidpretorius]

here a more serious attempt from one from the rgb tiffs.

400 frames of the 600 was around 90% in registax. medium wavelets, some unsharp masking etc

this is going to take a while to get a nicely finished product!

[acropolite]

Fantastic work DP, I have a question. How do ypu manage to stay awake during the daylight hours. :P

[Robert_T]

That's absolutely beautiful DP :thumbsup: - Colour and bdaning is first rate.

When do you sleep?

[davidpretorius]

thanks guys, i will be in bed early this morning, unless of course, the seeing is goood

gee i am addicted!

[rumples riot]

I think morning has come and gone today Davo. So do you mean tomorrow morning.

[matt]

Poor ol' DP doesn't know what day it is!:lol:

[astrogeek]

Good stuff David, keep that midnight oil burning :)

[davidpretorius]

who's davo??

[beren]

:) Wow Davo top stuff

[danielsun]

WOW!!! Thats great stuff dave!!!! ;)

[rumples riot]

In lala land yet Dave? Sounds like it.

[RB]

I downloaded the avi from your link David.
This is the result of running it through registax, using approx 30 of the 51 frames available.
Medium wavelet and post process in Photoshop, adjusting levels, unsharp mask and Noise reduction using
NEAT Image.

The avi is a really good capture David, well done, even though it's only 51 frames resulting in some noise. The longer one with more frames (600 frames) would be even better.

[davidpretorius]

rocket boy, pm your address and i can send you more of them if you like on cd or dvd?

thanks all again

[RB]

Just PMed you David.
Are they available on VHS? :lol: :poke:

Cheers mate, whaterver's easier for you.