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Originally Posted by ChrisV
That's excellent Markus.
Feel like I can comment on a planetary image now as I had my first go at it this week - a fuzzy disaster. Think I'll leave it to the pros.
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Thanks Chris. I have to admit if I looked at the raw footage I got I'd say the same about my own stuff, so don't give up on your own footage until you've given it a good go through post-processing. I was suprised to get anything at all from that night. From that session I'd say at least 50% of the detail came from up in post. I regret not having thrown an eyepiece on there before I went to bed now, just to see what it actually looked like visually but I was too tired and was busy conducting another test on 47 Tuc. But anyway these RC scopes are not great for visual because the central obstruction is too big so I don't know what that I would have seen anyway.
Though I do find something really exciting about being able to capture data and then take it away and manipulate it to reveal details that you could never have seen with your naked eye. It's kind of like light amplification astronomy, only with a huge time delay. I'm continually reminded of a guy I used to know who worked in video forensics who did similar stuff - teasing out details from grainy security cam footage to find crims, only he was, you know, catching bad guys.
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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Great effort.
Just to get a planet in the field of view is a big deal in my book.
Alex
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Thanks Alex :-) Reading stuff here has helped a lot. There was a thread only a few days before I went out that gave me some ideas of things to watch out for. I made sure my finderscope was spot on so I didn't have to just rely on go-to's, for instance. and started wide and narrowed in to a smaller field at the start of the observing session; Wide EP, Narrower Crosshair EP, replace EP with Camera, confirm target and then attach powermate, checking finderscope alignment along the way. It's a fiddly buisness this astronomy thing!
Cheers and thanks guys :-)
M