Jupiter from DP, 25th January

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

David Pretorius sent me a cdrom with some raw jupiter data that he purchased on the black market... err... I mean "took with his own scope".. :-)

Having nothing better to do while waiting for a break in the weather I thought I would process it for him, so here is it.

DP you'll have to chip in with the details? I stacked about 300 frames each in RGB, deconvolved in Astra Image using ME.

You can see the GRS just rising on the right hand edge of the planet.

regards, Bird

[ving (David)]

well done bavo... dird?

oh well.... great pic guys

[davidpretorius]

thanks bird, legend!!

these were 120 second runs at 5fps in raw mode for the toucam. Seeing was very nice.

For my limited experience, i rated it 8 or 9/10, Bird, how would you have gauged it???

ice, rocket and asimov also have copies of the cd's so I can't wait for their processing efforts.

I had to share the great seeing conditions.

As bird mentioned to me via pm, the collimation and focus could do with a touch up. I am waiting on baree's impression of the orions hand held focusser, and it it works well, i will make one or buy one.

[asimov (John)]

The disc rocked up today mate. I doubt weather I'll do such a good job as bird on it but I'll give it a shot.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

thanks bird, legend!!

these were 120 second runs at 5fps in raw mode for the toucam. Seeing was very nice.

For my limited experience, i rated it 8 or 9/10, Bird, how would you have gauged it???

The features on the disk were very steady, so the seeing might possibly have been up around 8/10 or better. However there might also have been some jetstream or upper-air turbulence that results in a slightly fuzzy image, so that would detract from the seeing a bit.

regards, Bird

[davidpretorius]

Originally Posted by asimov

The disc rocked up today mate. I doubt weather I'll do such a good job as bird on it but I'll give it a shot.

do not understate your processing capabilities! mr underestimov!

Bird and Mike and I tend to process one way, you and rob different. I have always been keen to see how the exact same data would turn out.

looking forward to it!

[davidpretorius]

Originally Posted by bird

The features on the disk were very steady, so the seeing might possibly have been up around 8/10 or better. However there might also have been some jetstream or upper-air turbulence that results in a slightly fuzzy image, so that would detract from the seeing a bit.

regards, Bird

or focus or collimation!

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nice processing Bird, nice capturing Davo! Huge image scale! Anthony did you upscale it?

[asimov (John)]

This is the first time I've had anything to do with raw frames..could be interesting.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Very nice processing Bird, nice capturing Davo! Huge image scale! Anthony did you upscale it?

oops, yes, it's 1.3x resampled in registax. I meant to scale it back down again when I was done but forgot... P-)

Bird

[davidpretorius]

Originally Posted by asimov

This is the first time I've had anything to do with raw frames..could be interesting.

it has been converted back to colour frames, so you should be fine. you have the red / green / blue there to process individually if you want and then combine in astral image if need be

[Robert_T]

Hey DP, great image. I'm just back from a couple days travelling. Just PM'd you my postal address.... looking forward to seeing how much damage I can do with this little gem of an avi

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

waiting for Jupiter, here's another version, probably a bit better than the first one...

Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Much better!

Very nice Anthony.

[asimov (John)]

Good stuff Bird!!

[Hitchhiker]

Great stuff, bird & DP. DP, can you send some of that seeing up here?