Quick and dirty Jupiter 14th March 2006

[allan gould]

A very quick grab shot of Jupiter taken last night as Jupiter was rising. Quickcam Pro 300 with IR filter through Celestron 8 with 2x barlow. There was a great deal of atmospheric abberation due to the low angle but its amazing that Registax managed to pull together a fair amount of detail.
Regards, Allan Gould

[Dennis]

Hi Allan

That is a very nice image of Jupiter for a low altitude, poor seeing "quick grab shot". Well done! There is much detail to be seen even thought the image is a little soft due to the conditions.

Cheers

Dennis

[ving]

GRS creeping off the edge, its litter version doing like wise....

wel caught :)

[iceman]

Great image Allan!

I hope you don't mind, I gave it a run through AstraImage, split into R/G/B, did a LR deconvolution on each channel and recombined, and then reduced the gamma.
The original is on the left, my version is on the right.

It's a nice image, well done!

[allan gould]

No that looks better than my original post. I didn't try too hard on the image as it was not the main aim of taking my scope out last night (I was using the spotting and main scope to do a polar alignment without doing a drift alignment and I tested it against Jupiter with a 9mm eyepiece to give 2.5 hr with Jupiter still smack in the centre of the eyepiece).
Regards, Allan

[Robert_T]

Nice Jupiter under very trying conditions, well done Allan:thumbsup: The GRS and festooning in the equatorial zones is very clear still.

cheers,

[davidpretorius]

nice image Allan,

love the reprocess mike

[matt]

Mike

Do you recall which iteration and radius values you assigned to which RGB channels in LR deconvolution??

Somewhere between 3 and 4 and 1.5-1.8 respectively I s'pose???

Cheers

[iceman]

Thanks Dave.

Matt, I used 4 or 5 iterations @ 1.4 for each channel, if I remember correctly.

After recombine, gamma was reduced to 0.7.