Jupiter - 26th March 1/3 update

[davidpretorius]

Man, I know how ice feels with 16 vids.

Here is an update, a mixture optimized colour, raw colour, 100 frame stacks and >100 frame stacks.

There are some rippas here to be displayed separately once i have looked at the lot.

And yes Rob, the chest is out and the strut is in action!!!

[iceman]

Looking excellent! I prefer the 100 frame versions, in the top or bottom row.

I hope you can make an animation - at that image scale it's going to look awesome.

[iceman]

btw how did you go keeping the larger image scale (+ moon) in the FOV?

[davidpretorius]

being alt/az driven, most of my error is up / down with the smaller alt bearing, so by turning the toucam to suit, i can pretty much just guide in the alt.

Also, turning the toucam so the moon was approaching horizontally across the screen. I have given up on ppmcentre to always pick up the moon, even though I have used cutx and width etc. As it gets closer, ppmcentre is picking it up more and more.

The scary thing with the scale is the selection boxes are not big enough in registax, so I am aligning on the exact centre.

100 stacking seems to be the best for optimized images, but some of the heavy wavelets are responding well with ME deconvolution in raw mode.

Hard to say.

Just waiting on the moon to get close and then I will do a align on it and see how much detail has been picked up. Also will try a resample on the moon.

[iceman]

I found the same thing with ppmcentre - it crops the moon out no matter what settings I used.
I emailed Anthony this morning to see if he can help.

I've stopped using a large alignment box in registax - I now use 128 and put it on an area of interest (ie: a nice feature/moon shadow, GRS, etc). I actually think Jupiter is big enough to do a multi-point alignment on. I think given its size, there are bound to be frames where one half of the planet is sharp and the other half blurry.

I'm planning to try that on this processing run if the images are of good enough quality. Adds a lot more time to each processing run, that's the only downside.

[acropolite]

Excellent work Dave, amongst the best I have seen. Re strutting, do you have the mandatory rubber glove on the head...:P

[ving]

o five hundred me thinks....

great stuff davo. your a leg end in this planet stuff :)