Carme (J11)

theodog (Jeff) · #1 22-07-2008, 06:39 AM

Hi All,

Again, Carme (J11) Mag 17.9 diameter 20km.

3x10min -darks

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iceman (Mike) · #2 22-07-2008, 07:20 AM

Really nice again, Jeff. What a beauty that one is.

How do you register the frames for the gif? I think with a bit more care the animations would be even better.

theodog (Jeff) · #3 22-07-2008, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Really nice again, Jeff. What a beauty that one is.

How do you register the frames for the gif? I think with a bit more care the animations would be even better.

Yep.
I found that using a different program to process for animation helps too.

Any suggestions?
I use Jasc for the Gif's.

iceman (Mike) · #4 23-07-2008, 05:39 AM

I use photoshop for registration of the frames. Each frame is a new layer in photoshop, and then I just use the move tool and blink each layer on and off to align them perfectly on top of each other.

Then I use scripts->export layers as files, and it saves the layers as TIF files, which I then load into Jasc Animation Shop to create the animation.

theodog (Jeff) · #5 23-07-2008, 07:28 AM

Thanks Mike,

I thought the only way to export from MaximDL (.fits) was to do a screen dump. In Paint, I would crop the image and save as .jpeg which I would import into Jasc. It was the crop stage that led to the mis-alignment (sometimes). Only yesterday I found that I can export as .tif from Maxim. Thus improving the alignment, even better delete a step in the animation.
I'll give your suggestion a go.
Thanks for the suggestion.