I've got a movie of Jupiter

[Daveskywill (David)]

Hello:

I guess people who know about the Canon T2i know that it can take movies as well.

And just recently I tried my hand at a movie of Jupiter. It was with Meade LX200GPS 10" F10 with a 2" right angle and then converted to 1.25" and a 1.25" 2x Meade triplet barlow then to my camera.

I've got an AVI format picture that's about 2 megabytes (is that long enough?). For those wanting to follow me I'm on Twitter and Flickr as David Williams from Michigan and my pictures and video are there too.

You can see the bands sort of. But it goes between a bit blurry to into better view. And I'm guessing that this is mainly due to atmospheric things like heat and waves. And this was taken mostly at my meridian though. I'm just also wondering if I've got those conditions, what could make it (the video/picture) better?

So I hear that Jupiter is near opposition. And as for us (north) we are getting colder weather. So this would make for slightly better viewing, I'm guessing as Jupiter reaches the sweet spot.

Does someone have tips on this?

David

[darbyvet (Carl Darby)]

Hi David,
can you provide a link to your flickr movies.I would love to look at the movie.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Hi David,

Do you want to create Astro Videos, or just use the Avi's for stacking to create a single image?

If you want to know anything about Video Astronomy, the easiest way is to go into the Cloudy Nights Forum section called ' Video and Electronically Assisted Astronomy'
All of us in there are Video Astronomers and there are tips, tutorials, and all sorts of video discussions and help.
AstroVideo isn't a big thing here in Oz yet, but it's huge in your own homeland.

To find the Cloudy Nights Video section, go HERE

To see AstroVideo being Broadcast live on the internet, and talk with the broadcaster (I am one of them), register HERE

But if you are wanting to use the Avi's for stacking into a single image, then I'm sure some of the Planetary Imagers will come along and help you with advice on that area of Astrophotography

[Daveskywill (David)]

Here is my screen name on Flickr is

DavidLightningWillskie



So if you do that search you'll find my stills and that one movie of Jupiter.

PS: I would like to learn to use Registax as a good planetary and lunar stacker.

To me I don't see any difference in appearance as soon as I stack them. I think they say you will many times not see it at that point. And then didn't totally know what I was doing at the wavelets thing too.

Thank you, you two.

David

[darbyvet (Carl Darby)]

Hi David,
I cant find you on flickr.I must be doing something wrong.If you want you can PM me and I will give you my email so you can email a link to me.

Once you have stacked your images in registax the result doesnt look much better than your movie frames.Wavelets is where the magic happens to bring out the detail.

[darbyvet (Carl Darby)]

Hi David,
I did find you.I looked at the AVI.I think you have some decent data there,but I would need to download the avi into my PC and I dont see how to do that with Flickr.The image is quite small.You may want to use a barlow lens or a televue powermate 2.5 to get a larger image on the chip.For my Celestron c11 I find that f25-f30 gives me a decent sized image of JUpiter.

[Daveskywill (David)]

Carl maybe you'd want to take a look.

I don't have any 2" barlows yet.

And just have 2, 2" eyepieces.

And have some plans for a future project of an observatory in our

backyard.

More details are in a post to the general group (forum) here.

Thanks
David