Jupiter - 3 hours rotation 10/11th April

[Dennis]

Hi

Here is a subset of images processed from the 62 avi's collected from 22:47 to 01:26. As can be seen, the seeing varied throughout the evening/morning hence the variable quality of each image.

The next job will be an animation.

Warning: File size = 104Kb

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

Wow Dennis, no wonder you were tired last night. They look great! I'm looking forward to seeing them animated.

A couple of questions for you seeing as I'm going to try the same thing. How do you center and crop the images so they line up and are the same size? and two how do you ensure even processing? I'm trying to apply the same settings to the ones I'm working on now, but even so they seem to each require a slight tweeking and I don't know if they all look the same until I line them up beside each other. Any suggestions would be much appreciated

[Dennis]

Hi Paul

Here's is my rough procedure:

K3CCDTools:
Capture – set the optimum settings and do not make any changes for the series.

Registax:
The only processing I did was applying a saved Wavelet scheme of 1=30, 2=20 to each image.

ImagesPlus:
Used the "Planetary Align" function on each Registax bmp. This is a powerful feature of ImagesPlus which simply aligns, centres and crops all the images.

Corel PhotoPaint 12:
Created a blank, black canvas 36" x 24".
Opened each aligned, centred, cropped bmp from ImagesPlus.
Cropped each Jupiter by eye attempting to crop the same size area each time, then copied/pasted as new object onto blank canvas.
Used “Distribute” and “Align” feature to create evenly spaced columns and rows.
Added text then cropped wasted black space.
Saved as 30% compression jpg.
Fell asleep a twitching wreck.

Good luck with yours Paul – I am NOT envious of the processing journey that awaits you, my brave traveler!

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

Thanks heaps Dennis, you're a champion :thumbsup: That Planetary align function looks like it's going to make life a lot easier.

[davidpretorius]

the longest sequence yet I believe.

dennis.....dennis.......HEY DENNIS, WAKE UP

these are great mate, not the seeing of early feb, but I love em!

[ving]

we need more and longer sequences!!!! :)
i want to see a full rotation :P

great work dennis :)

[[1ponders]]

I'ma workin' on it ving. I need to borrow a bigger HDD though:P

The following dates look good for a GRS transit to GRS transit.

30/4-1/5
5/5-6/6
7/5-8/5
12/5-13/5
17/5-18/5
59/5-30/5

You will need pretty good views towards the eastern horizon as Jup will be pretty low during the early part of May but in June times are much better. All these dates are from the perspective of transit to transit.

[Striker]

Wow...so many Jupiter's.

Nicely done and great presentation.

[davidpretorius]

it should be possible, i have been looking at jupiter at 30 degrees and it has been nice and stable. i will have a look at starry night and pauls list. so 10 hours at 800mb a 90 sec run.

If you have two great nights in a row, then you could hopefully patch the bad ones.

What a blast if you nail it.

Hey isnt it great to have pinched paul from those horrible dso'ers. next he will be buying a dob!!!

[Robert_T]

Dennis, what an absolute blinder of a sequence:eyepop: All are good, but there are some absolute gems in here - incredible band detail. Animations are fine, but I actually prefer looking at it all laid out like this.

I had a good night myself last night with nearly 2 hours on the run, but you've surpassed me again. Well done and well deserved :thumbsup:

[Striker]

We still want to see you what you have done Robert.

[RB]

Superb Dennis.
Amazing stuff.

:eyepop:

[[1ponders]]

Actually I started out on planetary Dave. I think January first last year ??? was my first Saturn posting. Then I think the clouds moved in in March, or was that when I bought my Canon 300D :D. I'd love to be able to do more unfortunately I only have a window of about 50 deg up from the east to the zenith (but fully north to south so I don't miss much, I just have to wait for ti to get to me.). So at least when I do get to have a go at them then I've got the best window. And in the mean time when they are low I can focus (pun intended) on DSOs

I'd love a Dob. If you're offering the new 16" truss when it comes out I'll take it thanks :D I'm after something with serious aperture that I can just wheel out in the middle of the week for viewing and concentrate on imaging on the weekends.

Work is the curse of the amateur astronomer. :mad2:

[JohnH]

What a Stunning sequence ! Definitely publication quality there mate you should be very happy.

[davidpretorius]

spot on, I am keen to have a look at the optics of these 16". I am very interested as I want to motorize and actively cool it and then put on mick's dob buggy.

worst case is that the mirror comes out and it forms the starting block for a bird type scope.

cheaper than buying a 16" mirror by itself