Jupiter - 10th april - preliminary

[davidpretorius]

Seeing was great early in the night and jupiter looked fantastic at 30 degrees thru the 5mm lv vixen.

Did not disappoint later in the evening.

GRS, IO and Jnr was around

Seeing was 8/10 at at times. Here is a quick run through of an optimized colour. from earlier on. 20 odd vids to run through

[matt]

Well done Dave

Some detail in the GRS and nice overall contrast.

Doesn't look as overexposed/washed out in the middle as sometimes is the case. Excellent stuff.

I reckon you could do some hand-picking of frames before another run in registax to get rid of some of that blurring on those nice festoons.

But very nice. Great image scale. Send some of that seeing my way will ya.

[asimov (John)]

Another rippa Dave!

Well done.

[Robert_T]

luverly stuff DP, great colours, detail edging the GRS is excellent andoverall image scale is eye-popping!!!

[Dennis]

Wow - what a fabulous image Dave. Can't wait to see the rest. I did an all nighter in Brisbane where the seeing was not too good, and waves of clouds rolled in for long periods, likes sets of waves on a surf beach.

The wavelength between sets was approx 30 secs, which is not too great for grabbing 90 sec exposures!

Oh well, I'll enjoy looking at your superb images instead.

Cheers

Dennis

[ving (David)]

thats tha bomb dave!
great shot

[h0ughy (David)]

nice, very nice. you will knock Mike off his perch shortly!

[davidpretorius]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

nice, very nice. you will knock Mike off his perch shortly!

do you want both of cut from the sight!

please I need a moderator to edit this pronto before the boss sees it


thanks houghy!

I am looking forward to following your line of imaging in next few years, cos it is way more harder!!!!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Great shot Dave. Fantastic image scale.

Originally Posted by Dennis

I did an all nighter in Brisbane where the seeing was not too good

Not too good. I took one avi of Jupiter at around midnight when it was nice and high and promptly went to bed It was lovely and clear up here til then though.

[Dennis]

Hi Paul

You did the wise thing! Here is my best Jupiter, from 2:00am, to compare with Dave's. Not worth posting in itself, but useful as a comparison to illustrate Dave's better seeing and larger image scale.

Not to mention his overwhelmingly larger, massive 10” ‘scope.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

here comes io!!!


forget seeing, i do love your finished work. do you process on a lcd laptop screen. I am doing both at the moment and will be producing one for lcd, one for crt.

I have huge differences for different monitors

[ving (David)]

definitely nothing wrong with that dennis!! its a top shot!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

There is nothing wrong with that shot Dennis. Nice detail.

You couldn't pay me to post the one I took I know it's been a long time between images for me but I couldn't have gotten that bad in that time. It must have been the seeing.

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

here comes io!!!
forget seeing, i do love your finished work. do you process on a lcd laptop screen. I am doing both at the moment and will be producing one for lcd, one for crt.
I have huge differences for different monitors

Hi DP

I capture on an IBM R40 ThinkPad, with a 1400 x 1050 LCD screen and process on my desktop, which has a 20" 1600x1200 BenQ LCD panel, so no CRT's in our house I'm afraid.

By the way, I just noticed my Baader UV/IR blocking filter in the accessory case, so last night's Jupiter was taken with no filter. Hmm, I'll have to try the ToUcam with filter, then naked, side by side to see the difference.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent again DP! Huge image scale, you must be getting used to that size by now.

So where's the final!? Bring it on! Can't wait to see it.