Jupiter 6th November

[Clayton]

Trying some new techniques ATM Mainly backing off with the wavelet use. With so many frames to stack the temptation was to hit the wavelets a bit hard also I have backed off from using Auto colour balance in R6. I think it is a great tool that more people should experiment with, but the results are a cool sort of hue in my case, which I found appealing at first, but am now feeling discontent with, also the manual adjustments in R6 are quite coarse for a lot of settings and don't become active until you release the slider So I have returned to CS3 where there is a lot more control and previews available
This shot was taken quite early in the evening (9:30pm Daylight savings time) Seeing around 7-8/10 but worsening, with Jupiter at about 37 degrees altitude with the DBK618, and the 8" Newt @ f22.7 (wishing now that I had pushed it up a bit higher ) 1500/10400 frames

[John K]

That's a nice shot with lots of detail. Considering you are only using an 8" and at that altitude, you should be very happy with the results.

[Quark (Trevor)]

A very nice result Rob, a top effort for that alt.

Cheers
Trevor

[traveller (Bo)]

Very nice Rob, esp as it was an early evening effort. would you mind critiquing my initial effort in beginner astrophotograhy thread? and
Bo

[John Hothersall]

Thats a pretty fine result, GRS makes the image.

John.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Very fine image Rob - got to be happy with that. Regards Ray

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice image, well done!

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by John K

That's a nice shot with lots of detail. Considering you are only using an 8" and at that altitude, you should be very happy with the results.

Thanks John. I reckon I can squeeze a bit more out of this setup if I get some really nice seeing

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Quark

A very nice result Rob, a top effort for that alt.

Cheers
Trevor

Thanks Trevor,
I discovered last year that my best seeing was often around sunset and shortly after. It seems to be the case this year as well. It seems to drop off a bit later, and around Midnight is often quite unstable??
I would prefer to be imaging at transit time, but earlier gets me to bed at a decent time as well

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by traveller

Very nice Rob, esp as it was an early evening effort. would you mind critiquing my initial effort in beginner astrophotograhy thread? and
Bo

Thanks Bo.
Glad to help if I can

[Clayton]

Thanks John, Ray and Mike.
Your comments are appreciated