What's The Weather Like at Your Place

[leon]

Hi All

Two wees ago i bought this new Lens for my Pentax IstD, but do you think the weather has helped......Not on your life, it's been lousy non stop from the day i bought it.
Addmititly Ballarat needs the rain, but i need a fix of Star Time too.

So how's it at your place. :( :(

[gaa_ian]

The wet season is hanging on in Gove NT, have had a few lucky clear patches to see the comet !

[Dennis]

Brisbane calling.....

…..we have clear skies but fairly ordinary seeing. I have Jupiter on the notebook display in the back garden and I cannot focus on the disc as the wobbly seeing is not giving even fleeting glimpses of anything sharp. When I pan to one of the moons, I can get good focus but upon returning to the planetary disc....mushy bands and a blank disc. :(

Over and out

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

I'm about 100Km north of Dennis and have intermittent cloud with visible stars twinkling so badly I don't need my glasses to see it

:shrug: Oh well. :shrug:

[asimov]

South Australian weather sucks!!...:(

[rogerg]

Perth: Patchy cloud, enough to not be worth going outside. And then there's the moon.

Roger.

[leon]

Yea rodger i forgot about the Moon, not that iv'e seen it for a while, at least when the clouds are gone, then maybe the Moon will have nicked off as well.

[ballaratdragons]

It is absolutely terrible here! Cloud every night for last few months (except maybe 1 or 2 nights).

My weather is just like yours Leon! Funny about that!! :lol:

[rogerg]

That's my hope. Forecast is for clear skies here late in the coming week, which would suit well for the moon too.

Time will tell..

Roger.

[Lester]

Jet stream is gone, now for the cloud to go, not to mention the moon.

[ballaratdragons]

Yeah, be great when the Moon and Cloud goes. Then I'll have a perfect view of the smoke from a hundred chimneys!

(mine included)

[Dennis]

Brisbane calling......bulletin #2
Seeing has improved to the extent that the white ovals in Jupiter's belts are more or less continuously visible and resolved on-screen in K3CCDTools. A nice Galilean moon is approx 1 disc to the right.

Gee, the full Moon (ours) is bright.

Over and out

Dennis

[ballaratdragons]

The full moon must be bright! My clouds are glowing!!!

[asimov]

Yeah, nice translucent clouds from my backyard also! Wheres my kodak!? he-he!

[Dennis]

Here is a quick and dirty Jupiter, fresh off the display...

Cheers

Dennis

[asimov]

Thats a good one! Great detail in there, can't wait until you hit it with your wavelett techique!

[Dennis]

Sorry Asi, I have misled you....."fresh off the display" actually meant I was doing it outside in the back garden, and the image fully processed in Registax whilst I was also capturing in K3CCDTools....so what you see is the final product of 800 stacked with Wavelet 1=20.

And, the seeing has just gone mushy, really mushy, but at least we have clear skies!

Cheers

Dennis

[ballaratdragons]

Geez, my best and clean ain't even 30% that good!!!!

[davidpretorius]

cant even see the moon!!!

[iceman]

800 frames is a lot Dennis! Try 200, it might come out sharper. Although who am I to suggest messing with your technique.

Your images are consistently MARVELLOUS!

[Dennis]

Thanks Mike - I am always grateful to receive feedback and suggestions for my images and have really appreciated the care and time that IIS people have taken in providing it.

Earlier this morning, I tried stacking fewer frames but after Zac posted his Jupiter, I probably won't bother with mine as the seeing was not that good.

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

C'mon Dennis you can't do that to us. After posting that teaser.


Ok, I didn't want to have to do it but.............:prey::prey::prey: pleeeease:prey::prey::prey::sadeyes : :sadeyes: :sadeyes: :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::violin: :violin: :violin: :jump2: :jump2: :jump2: :thanks: :thanks: :thanks: :face:

[leon]

He Ken, don't they have gas in snake valley yet,????. He He He. ah Just kidding. :D :D

[Lester]

Cloudy here tonight,

But I am hoping for it to clear before morning.

[Dennis]

Hi Paul

Well, since you asked in such an animated and colourful manner, what else could I do but process the images!

A quick run through seemed to indicate the best one was at 22:27pm so I punched it through Registax with the following settings:

Quality 97%
479 frames from 900
Wavelets 1=40; 2=10.

The 3 images are; Normal size, Mitchell 150% and Mitchell 200%.

Cheers

Dennis

C9.25, x2.5 Barlow, ToUcam 840.

PS – Sorry it took so long to reply – Mother’s Day duties and all that….

[[1ponders]]

Holy snappin' duck quack, Dennis. First Rob puts up a stunner, then you put up one, then he puts up one, and now you do this. :eyepop: You two really have the touch. :clap: