Jupiter 22/02/05

Comet Hunter · #1 22-02-2005, 02:32 PM

This is my Jupiter effort from this morning between breaks of high clouds at approx. 3:45am local time. I'm starting to get some good results using the barlow, just need to get that speck of dust off the chip

Setting were 1/25th shutter, approx 60% brightness, 25% gain, little/no gamma, 75% saturation, 15fps, 60sec avi.
http://comethunter.com/images/220205jupiter.jpg

iceman (Mike) · #2 22-02-2005, 02:44 PM

Wow that's a great shot Andrew, it's huge!

Get the can of compressed air! I'm sure you can pick them up from any electrical or automotive store (maybe)?

ving (David) · #3 22-02-2005, 02:47 PM

its coming right for us!

great shot!

ving (David) · #4 22-02-2005, 02:47 PM

you can get compressed air from DSE too.

Striker (Tony) · #5 22-02-2005, 02:58 PM

Well done Andrew.......of course its Huge Mike...its 300 times the size of Earth.....lol

Dust gone....

Comet Hunter · #6 22-02-2005, 03:33 PM

Thanks Tony, was that just a bit of manual photoshop/gimp magic or did you use a program to blend it in?

rumples riot · #7 22-02-2005, 03:39 PM

Nice shot, some fine detail in there, I recommend that you go through the avi and remove the blurry frames and then restack and do the wavelets. This will give a much better shot. Still a great shot and now i want to get my scope going again.

Striker (Tony) · #8 22-02-2005, 03:42 PM

Nah just a bit of clone action to get rid of the dust spots.....

rumples riot · #9 22-02-2005, 03:47 PM

Just did some tweeking to the image, what do you think? The dust is a problem, but am sure that this avi contains some very sharp images.

Striker (Tony) · #10 22-02-2005, 03:59 PM

I will get rid of the dust and blend the back ground.

woops missed a bit of dust...brb...done

Comet Hunter · #11 22-02-2005, 04:06 PM

Hhmmm, to be honest its just a bit too red/pinkish Paul, I prefer the more pale natural looking original. Will reprocess as suggested shortly.

Dust will be dealt with by the w/end.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #12 22-02-2005, 04:35 PM

Don't you ever work Tony:p

Andrew how hard did you push the waveletting in the original. If its a good take on the night I've found that Jupiter can really handle some heavy waveletting.

Comet Hunter · #13 22-02-2005, 06:20 PM

I've tried reprocessing, weeding out some of the poorer frames, but they're all very similar - conditions weren't all that great due to the high cloud rolling over at the time, originally planned on starting at about 2am but was clouded over, checked again at 3:30ish and it had cleared up some what, but still the occasional band of cloud passing over. Paul R, I worked the wavelets as much as I normally do - as much as the image will take before it starts to look grainy/overprocessed, I'm happy to sacrifice a tiny bit of detail to keep a more overall natural look to the images. Considering the raw frames I'm more then happy with the final image I came up with, my best Jupiter yet!

Raw frames..

rumples riot · #14 22-02-2005, 06:35 PM

Andrew even on the raw frames it looks great, focus must have been so close to spot on. If you care to to do it, I would love to get hold of a zipped copy of the edited avi. Just to play around with.

Comet Hunter · #15 22-02-2005, 07:02 PM

Yep no problem Paul. I've pushed the avi as much as I can, would be good to see what others can do to compare my processing skills to..

avi its about 6.6meg

quicksimon · #16 23-02-2005, 09:27 AM

Great shot Andrew. It would be great to capture detail as fine as that.

vindictive666 (John) · #17 23-02-2005, 09:49 AM

very very nice !!!!!!!

iceman (Mike) · #18 23-02-2005, 10:12 AM

Hey CH.

Thanks for uploading your avi.. Man I wish I had raw frames like that, and at that HUGE image scale!

Here's my attempt at processing.. I think it reveals more details, but you may not like the colour or the harder edges.. In the end it's personal preference and of course you'll process it how you like. It was fun processing a great avi, thanks.

I used ~600 frames and adjusted wavelets in registax, and then split/deconvoluated/recombined the RGB components in AstraImage.

Comet Hunter · #19 23-02-2005, 10:53 AM

No trouble at all Ice. Still waiting on RR to put up his attempt....

[1ponders] (Paul) · #20 23-02-2005, 12:02 PM

Andrew I'm interested in the size of your avi. For a 60 sec, 900 frame avi my files end up somewhere between 100 and 300 mb (either saturn or jupiter) and usually between 30 and 90 mb zipped, not 7mb as your's is unzipped. Had I been taking this image at the size it is I wouldn't have been surprised to end up with an avie of around 500 mb. Have you compressed your's at all? What capture program are you using? This may be why you're not able to get as fine a detail as you like.