Alternate jupiter from April 24th

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

I'm trying different processing systems, and I'd like to get some feedback. Here's an example from the "new" system which may or may not be better than the old one, but it certainly gives a different result.

To create this image I stacked the raw frames with ppmcentre and then used Van Cittert deconvolution in Astra Image. Registax was not used.

cheers, Bird

[beren]

Awesome , top detail near the GRS

[h0ughy (David)]

a lot of detail in that Anthony, nice to see!

[matt]

That's really nice Anthony.

The rippling in the wake of the GRS is stunning.

I like it, although the colour looks a little rich on my laptop screen but that's probably just my screen??

[davidpretorius]

ok, first impressions of the thumbnail, smoother, more photo quality about it.

The bigger version is exactly the same thing.

Smoother comes to mind straight away.

A question, how do you stack in ppmcentre??

Ok, it is out on a limb, but on my laptop, this has a damian peach feel about it. Would need to see the same data side by side, but you have me dying to try on my latest data

[iceman (Mike)]

Definitely smoother - looks like it could use a slight unsharp mask, but at the same time, it has a "hubble/cassini" look to it, in terms of colour and smoothness.

Is there a new version of ppmcentre which stacks?

[Dennis]

Best Jupiter I have seen - simply stunning.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

mike, he is being coy about a stacking ppmcentre???

only works on linux!!!

i am on the plane to canberra as we speak!

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Yes, I've added stacking to ppmcentre, it's still experimental but a new version should be up on the website soon.

It only works on monochrome images at the moment, I'd like to add colour support before I upload the new version..

Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Don't need colour support, I stack the separate RGB's anyway! Happy to help beta test it if you want to send it my way

[StargazerX1]

Anthony,

Wow! The image almost seems that it was painted, there is virtually
no graininess. I would bring in the limbs a little bit brighter and I always prefer a little bit more warmth, but bluish Jupiters are sort of in these days.

How come so many of you Aussie guys have south at the bottom? I know
Sky&Tel (and NASA) want north at the top, but it has never looked quite
right to me. Call me old fashioned, I was imaging Jupiter in Kodachrome back
in the 70's when the GRS really was red.

I want to thank you for sharing your experiences, your code and your talent. I wish more of the premiere imagers were as generous as yourself. And it seems the only ones that write books are the beginners! YOU should write a book about planetary imaging.

Glenn Jolly
Arizona USA

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks for the comments Glen. It seems that this stuff is always a work in progress - I keep trying to find ways to improve in all areas, both image capture and processing. It's a good way to spend a *lot* of time :-)

I have thought about the idea of a book on planetary imaging, maybe that will happen one day when I have enough experience to cover everything I'd want to put in...

cheers, Bird