Processing underway..

iceman (Mike) · #1 24-02-2005, 07:08 AM

I'm sure Bird will be processing all morning too, if weather was clear for him.

Had a great morning imaging Jupiter, GRS transitting, and at 3:30am when I got up, Io and it's shadow were on the disc too, but unfortunately it didn't stay on for long, I might only have 1 or 2 avi's with it on it.

I had about 70 separate avi's, grouped into bunches of 3 or avi's with slightly different capture settings in each, trying to find the optimal for my setup. Each 'group' of avi's lasts about 60 seconds or so (around 8-13 seconds per avi).

I've just used Virtual Dub to join them together and save them as bmp's, and used Bird's ppmcentre program to centre them all within the frame.

I didn't even need to delete bad frames from Virtual Dub, the seeing was great and it was difficult to find teh bad frames.

About to send them through registax... Will post results later of course!

iceman (Mike) · #2 24-02-2005, 08:02 AM

Getting very excited.. these are turning out better than I hoped!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #3 24-02-2005, 08:32 AM

sounds like you had more luck with clear sky than me Ice... I've just posted my jupiter - only one run possible due to clouds.

Bird

iceman (Mike) · #4 24-02-2005, 08:45 AM

I had clear sky till about 4:20am, and I gave up then and came to work. It got cloudier after that so I was lucky.

My images are turning out nowhere near as good as yours, but they're still my best yet. I haven't been able to spot Europa itself on mine, the image scale is just too small - ditto for the white spots in the South polar region.

but my GRS is kicking!