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Old 04-08-2005, 07:30 AM
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Dave sent me a link for the full avi, which I had a go at processing.

A couple of comments:
- Focus looks good
- Start the avi once Jupiter fully enters the FOV, it'll make processing easier.
- Soon you'll want more image scale, and you'll have to start using a barlow. It makes things much more difficult as it flies through the FOV in half the time.
- Settings (brightness, gamma etc) not quite right as I said above, look forward to seeing your next attempt with tweaked settings.
- I couldn't get much different than your processing attempt (good job).
- Stacked 100 frames in registax, wavelets processed, colour balance adjusted.
- What frame rate did you use? Going by the length of the video and # of frames, it looks like you use 15fps. I'd suggest using 10fps in bad or average seeing, and 5fps in good seeing. The reason for this, is the ToUcam has to compress data to shove down the USB 1.1 pipe. The higher the frame rate, the more compression is needed. So in good seeing, you want the data compressed as little as possible, so use 5fps. When seeing is worse, you want more frames to be able to select the best, so use 10fps. Any more than that, you'll get more compression artifacts.
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