LMAO! well here it goes!!!
taken 20.4.06 @ aprox 10pm.
seeing:5/10 tops
tranparency: 4-7/10 light patchy clouds
scope: 8" newt. had RA tracking going but with a single exposure i guess it doesnt matter
eyepiece: 7.5mm ultima
camera: sony dsc-p31 2mp. no optical zoom. I set digital zoom to its max to tray and get some image scale and was quite pleased to get banding.
I set up early but didnt head out till after house... hey it was house night!!! i tried various combinations for trying to get image scale and clarity both hand held and with my camera holder thingy and found the barlow didnt give me the clarity i wanted (because of seeing and the fact its a cheapie) so what i ended up with was an non-hand held afocal thru my 7.5, the FOV thru my 6.5 s500 was just too tricky. i snapped many shots thru the night and the following three were the most promising. I was lucky to time it for when Io was transiting and managed to get its shadow, of which i am greatly pleased (god bless CDC). clouds were coming and going all night so i used them to my advatage in the darker one for adding contrast.
camera settings: well theres not alot of scope for change with my camera. ISO set to 100 and the rest is pretty much auto. the only other part i can erally change that is worth changing is image quality so i just set it to its highest.
played with them all in PSP9. brightness lowered, contrast raised a touch, played a little in unsharp mask, and finished with smoothing and resizing (smaller)to get rid of the horrid grainyness (a little bit).
any questions?
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