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Old 31-01-2006, 08:43 AM
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Smile jumping JUPITER! tues morn 31 Jan

Hi All, left scope out after a quick session with Mars yesterday evening and was lured from bed around 3.45am by clear skies. Managed to get, caps of, powered up, focus on Jupiter, slipped in the neximage, centred the image, touched up the focus... AND watched as it suddenly faded from view - looked up and the sky was wall to wall cloud GRRRR. Hung around hopefully and finally took 90 secs worth (900 frames) of avi during a thinner patch of fast moving cloud - lost a couple of hundred through fading alone.

Wasn't even going to bother processing, but glad I did. Seeing must have been quite good as even under these conditions the detail I got was not bad at all - here they are, same frames just different degrees of jiggery pokery with Gamma adjustment, curves and soft sharpen. Both were LR deconvolution processed in Astra Image.

It's no Bird, but what the hey

cheers,
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