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John Hothersall
13-10-2011, 08:53 PM
SPX350, F30.6+F9.1 with 2xPowermate, Flea3, Astrodon filters and IR742nm.

Jupiter 11th-1422hrs UT. Alt49deg.
Uranus 12th-1135hrs UT. Alt59deg.

First attempt at Jupiter in avg seeing 6/10 with scudding cloud that would not let up eventually filling the whole sky. Had trouble with my Unibrain firecard which will not work now so used a cheap $15 6pin card which seemed to work better than the Unibrain did originally.

Next day on the 12th a full moon so tried Uranus moons at F9 with Firecapture stack frame option for boosted exposure at 2sec to see if I could get Miranda but full moon made it difficult so may be possible when moon has gone.

Tried Regx6 with Jupiter as it seemed to do a better job than Regx5, tried the linked wavelets, all processed very quickly.

Thanks, John.

Paul Haese
13-10-2011, 09:47 PM
Nice work John. Heaps of detail and probably the best from Oz.

Clayton
13-10-2011, 10:11 PM
Nice to see you back John! Shame about the seeing, still some good detail though.

iceman
14-10-2011, 04:56 AM
Nice one John, it looks like it could withstand a little more sharpening.

Nice job!

von Tom
14-10-2011, 03:45 PM
I was looking at Jupiter at the time of your shot - excellent detail for what the sky was offiering John. My image was a blurry mess.

Cheers,
Tom

John Hothersall
14-10-2011, 09:13 PM
Thanks for the comments, I squeezed a bit more out of the data using R+IR as a combined luminance with IRGB to give more pole detail with some sharpening.

IR+R/IRGB.

John.

Shiraz
14-10-2011, 10:15 PM
All are really fine images John. Regards Ray

Quark
15-10-2011, 11:31 AM
Nice result for the conditions John and good to see you back into the planets.

Regards
Trevor

Dennis
15-10-2011, 01:50 PM
Terrific work John – I’m particularly keen to see you capture Miranda!

Cheers

Dennis

FranckiM06
15-10-2011, 03:40 PM
Wow, I'm also very happy to see you back with your splendid planetary images. I like these Jupiter and also Uranus that great and very good result with the moon of Uranus.:thumbsup:
Congratulation John.
Regards;)
Franck