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