MY BEST JUPITER and GANYMEDE - teaser from the "night of 35 avis"!

[Robert_T]

Hi All, had a good session last night - first chance and first decent seeing in a very long time for me. Around 2 hours (Dennis's marathon has pipped me there though) and a whopping 35 avis to process.

Started the evening with 6-7/10 seeing and as there was lot's of moon action I used the 2.5 powermate. I was using the YUY2 codec available on the 900nc webcam. Seeing deteriorated steadily to around 5/10 but then came good up to around 8/10 after midnight so I swapped to the 4x powermate. Unfortunately, as I had to swap to power on the lappy the codec defaulted and so I wasn't gathering as much data as I could have (then again my hard-drive would have filled up quicker).

I've got a couple o' days at least of processing ahead of me, but at least some quality to motivate as well. Attached below are a couple of "teasers". Just straight registax processes at 2.5x and 4x powermate scales and LR deconvolutiuon in Astra Image 2. I'm pretty happy with the result so far ;).

This is the first time I've definitely captured detail on Ganymede so I'm stoked about that:)

cheers,

[Striker]

I love it.....

fantastic work Robert.

Now tell the moon to go away please.

Do you add Ganymede later or is it imaged at the same time.????

[RB]

They're unbelievable Rob.
Fantastic detail, and even on Ganymede.

Well done mate, can't wait to see the final images.

[ving]

thats fantastic!!! even got surface detail on the moon!!! :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Awesome stuff Robert, congrats on your best joops to-date!

We were all up last night, i'm glad you got some good seeing cause it was terrible down my way.

[davidpretorius]

ok, davo request time, can you please email me tiff file output from registax with wavelets settings at 1.0, 1.0, 5.8, 13.8, 29.3, 45.5 and then one at 1.0, 1.0, 5.9, 25.3, 50.2, 79.8

these are the settings i use. I would then like to try my 2x1.1 ME deconvolution on it to see how it goes/

I have been hammering wavelets which comes out looking over processed, but the 2x1.1 me deconv, cleans it up.

oh yes, from the 4x please.......

[h0ughy]

:prey2: Master, thank you for your offerings:)

[Robert_T]

Thanks Mate! Ganymede is just in there all natural like, no later additions as often is required say with the moons of Saturn!:D

[Robert_T]

davo, you're a hard task master.... I've still got 33 avi's to do a basic process on AND I've still got to get you those screen shots with WCTRL and the 900nc... I'm lagging, and the list of "things to do" around the house that my wife's been preparing for easter is spooling off the printer:P :sadeyes: :mad2:

[John K]

well done Robert! there is an amazing wealth of detail in your shot inc Ganymede, very very nice!

[davidpretorius]

and your point is :)

tell your wife that the list of jobs can be filed beautifully as it spools off the printer into a shredder. I will support you of course, from 1000km away!!!

[janoskiss]

They look unreal Robert. Amazing! :)

[Dennis]

Hi Robert

OMG - that x4 Powermate image is simply sublime - I would swap my 62 avi's from the 10/11th for that single image of yours. The detail in the Galilean moon is nothing short of extraordinary. Great work mate.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

thats it rob, i will keep at him with the 5x + ext and you come at him with the 4x.

Hey Dennis, can I be the first to congratulate you on the purchase of a 4x powermate, even if you don't know it yet!!!

[bird]

Nice work Rob!

Bird

[asimov]

Extraordinary Robert. Well done.

[astro_south]

Great capture Robert

[djacko]

What a brilliant image Robert..If they're teasers can't wait to see the final picture!

[beren]

Wow, that's just ridiculously superb :thumbsup:

[[1ponders]]

Boy Robert, it looks like us Qlders got the best of it this week. Fantastic shots. I can see I'm going to have to inverst in one of them powermates eventually.

[videoguy]

Fantastic result Robert!:eyepop: Beautiful colour tones and outstanding detail mate!
No doubt at all the QLD'ers got the best seeing. Seems a few of us were imaging Jupiter around the same time on the same night. My little effort from that night attached.

[Robert_T]

Thanks All, hasn't been much sky to see in QLD for quite a few weeks and the last decent batch of seeing was back in Feb, so reckon we were due for a good night - and looking at Dennis's and Paul's stuff (among others) it's great to see the opportunity wasn't wasted.:D

Anyway, now I've processed the lot, looks like I have probably the best of the avi's in this "teaser" thread anyway, so all I can do now is see if a separate R,G,B process can reveal a bit more.

cheers,

[[1ponders]]

Why aren't you outside making the most of another great night Rob. Not that you don't deserve a rest :D

[Robert_T]

my wife (and the kids) are not amused at my "wasting the entire day processing mars or jupiter or whatever it is" so I'm trying to pretend it's cloudy :D

[[1ponders]]

:lol:

You could have said you had a meeting to go to and brought your gear up here :lol:

[Hammerman]

Wow!!!! Robert, the detail on these photos is simply fantastic! :thumbsup: