Hi folks,
This is Jupiter on 26 Feb with average seeing. I have to point directly over my tin roof to see Jupiter, so maybe that has something to do with how wobbly it was. I used a Bahtinov mask with LiveView to focus, and the diffraction spikes danced around quite a lot. Hmmm. Is that seeing, or some residual tube currents? Anyone know?
I shot ~7,500 frames using a Canon 600d in HD video mode through a Meade LX200-ACF 10" at f/10 (no barlow as yet). Converted to AVI in VirtualDub then aligned/stacked the best 30% and wavelet'd in RS6 (AutoStakkert still spits the dummy with those converted AVIs). Some further modest processing in Gimp: Gamma, etc.
The bright halo is an obvious artifact. If you look very closely, you'll see a couple of others (e.g slight tearing) as a result of (I think) imperfect stacking.
My guess would be that I've over-sharpened and/or under-exposed (if I've read online advice correctly) and maybe used too many align points or otherwise don't have alignment worked out properly (I used 79 manual points placed on "high contrast" details).
I'm open to suggestions. Any advice would be appreciated.
