Saturn 1st April

asimov (John) · #1 01-04-2012, 02:43 AM

C11/dbk618

Feel free to estimate the seeing from the 12 frame animation.

Poita (Peter) · #2 01-04-2012, 05:37 AM

Beautiful!
We had similar seeing here tonight too, I'm just attempting to process my data now.
So frustrated, ran out of disk space!

Poita (Peter) · #3 01-04-2012, 06:27 AM

How do you make your animations?

lepton3 (Ivan) · #4 01-04-2012, 08:35 AM

Nice images John. Frankly, with results like that I wouldn't be bothering with the hassle of RGB.

Sadly, that's the usual sort of seeing I get from inner suburban Adelaide! It's a rare occasion when the live feed is not jumping around like that.

-Ivan

omegacrux (David) · #5 01-04-2012, 09:48 AM

Nice , it still amazes me the quality if images that people can get now compared to what was around 10 to 15 years ago mostly it was the VLT's , now people do it from the back yard , good job

RB (Andrew) · #6 01-04-2012, 10:13 AM

These images are crap John !
I don't want to be part of the clique crowd anymore and it's April 1st.

Honestly, to me, they look beautiful and I wish I could achieve this level of planetary imaging my friend.

Poita (Peter) · #7 01-04-2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lepton3

Nice images John. Frankly, with results like that I wouldn't be bothering with the hassle of RGB.

Sadly, that's the usual sort of seeing I get from inner suburban Adelaide! It's a rare occasion when the live feed is not jumping around like that.

-Ivan

That animation would represent the best seeing I have had this year by far...

asimov (John) · #8 01-04-2012, 02:02 PM

Peter, I just load the AVI into VirtualDub & cut the required frames out of the AVI, save as JPG & then load them to this site > http://gifmake.com/ I don't have any GIF/animation software onboard so this is easy (KISS) & effective for me. Probably wouldn't bother with any high rez GIF's with this; too much compression.

Yes Ivan. As you know I used the (old version) mono camera the other night (2 nights actually) & sadly it couldn't keep up with the DBK. I'm sure if I had the 618 chipped DMK I would have seen better results though maybe.

Thanks David. Yes it is amazing anyone off the street could do this with the right equipment & practice.

Thanks RB - No sucking up & bloody bum kissing!

Spongey wouldn't have it any other way!