Neximage on death row pulls out finger on Jupiter

[Lester]

Hi Everyone,

Seeing tonight was prity steady although the stars were still twinkling up to about 20 degrees.

All the avis tonight were at 5fps, results were okay.

[Lester]

Here is one with extention tube.

[asimov (John)]

Hmmmm...Very nice mate! Is that your best one?

[asimov (John)]

Hey, is this a meade 14" versus a C9.25 ? Winner gets to use the DFK in scope of choice, hmmmm??

[asimov (John)]

By crikey! Look at that! Great image scale/details/colour....on second thoughts....

[Lester]

I know you can beat it Asi.

I only processed the images in about 5 minutes, may tweek em one day. Got another stacked that looks passable.

Where are yours, come-on, big cough and spit em out, and none of this 4 hours prossessing cause thats not in the rules.

[Lester]

This is last one for tonight.

Hows the conditions Asi?

[asimov (John)]

Well....I'll just show you my worst one ok ??

You have me beat with that image scale mate. I've got a few using the 2X barlow, diagonal & 2 extension tubes, & boy was it hard to capture! I'm getting that debayer cross-hatch on all of the big ones though & I don't know how to fix that, never come across it before!

This one is the first one I captured with the onion I was raving on about earlier.

[Lester]

Very nice Master,

That is very mild onion, I cannot even see it. No doubt you will reheat some left overs from tonight and serve them tomorrow, I'd say while you are breathing you are a chance.

Trouble with cross hatch! Perhaps you want to buy a neximage, it would love to go to such a caring owner as you. Only time I had trouble with cross hatch was when I tried to capture at 30 fps.

I thought the seeing was gradually getting worse at 11:30 have you check it since?

[asimov (John)]

Yep. It's worse. I gave up on Jupe awhile back. Getting too low.

[asimov (John)]

Now heres a question. How would you rate the seeing? 5-6/10?

[Lester]

Now Now I am not falling for that trick! You and I both know it was a 4/10.

Okay, perhaps a 6/10 at the best.

Good night.

[asimov (John)]

Night mate.

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow, great job! Glad you finally got some good seeing. The image scale is huge in he second one.

[Dennis]

Awesome Lester, absolutely awesome! The colour is a little to "rich" or saturated for my delicate palate but that's just a personal taste. Superb detail and image scale.

Well done

Dennis

[Robert_T]

Lester these, especially the second and thirds are so amazingly laden with detail it's hard to begin. Detail upon detail in the red spots and more detail within the central festooning than I dreamt existed. You gotta be proud of these.

Reckon you could make these even better. In your processing you've cured the "too dark" issue, but the colours here appear overly saturated here and I reckon it's actually obscuring some fine detail.

cheers,

[Lester]

Thanks Mike, Dennis and Robert,

for your kind words of encouragement.

Will be trying to reprocess image, and see what comes out. These were only done in a hurry last night, like I said about 5 minutes max in picture publisher.

Thanks.

[Lester]

Thanks again for your comments and help.

Here are 2 images from last night, I haven't added any colour saturation during processing and in many cases went to minus saturation. Kept brightness up (Robert=thanks)

The first has waveletts 6=75 5=50 4=20

the second 6=70 5=36 4=13 3=5

In both cases stacked 300 images from 600 = captured for 120 seconds.

[Robert_T]

Lester they're fantastic , I prefer the lighter wavelets of the second, reckon you could go even lighter on 6. Have you tried just wavelets 1 and 2 (Dennis style), say a 15-20 on 1 and 10 on 2. Might be grainer, but if the seeing is good enough this can really bring out the fine detail.

Looks like GRS and Red jnr aren't going to merge after-all rather pass as ships in the night

[Lester]

Thanks for tip on waveletts Robert will try.