Attached are my first ever images of anything let alone Jupiter. Was a little worried about sharing them after seeing many of the fine images on here.
Especially the recent ones of Jupiter taken by other people this month. Makes me feel a little inadequate (although my wife reminds me that wouldn't be the first time
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So I took these images on the 20 JAN 13 in the light polluted skies of suburban Adelaide, whilst the sky was clear the seeing was average. It was a bit windy which didn't help and there appeared to be significant turbulence in the atmosphere.
The setup was:
SW ED80 (Pro Gold Edition)
Cheap 2x Meade Telenegative Barlow (Shorty)
Philips SPC900NC WebCam
Orion Skyview Pro Mount
I captured one of the images through wxAstro Capture and the other through Philips VLounge which came with the webcam. Didn't really know what I was doing with the settings just played with them.
wx Astro Capture avi was 295mb in length and 1 minute and 16 secs long.
VLounge avi was 442mb and around 1 minute and 15 secs in duration.
I then used Registax 5.1 to stack and play with the layering, once again didn't have a clue what I was doing just fiddle with the controls. I have not used any photo imaging software such as Photoshop or GIMP to alter them (as once again I wouldn't know where to start). So what you see is straight from Registax.
I was kinda proud of them until I started looking at everyone elses
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I am looking for some constructive advice on capture and registax settings. Also what to do in Photoshop or the like.
Please be gentle!
Thanks for any help - Gavin