Yep - last night's seeing was rubbish

matt · #1 31-07-2006, 10:50 PM

Managed to snap this quick 40 second avi between fast moving cloud last night.

Gee, the difference in seeing conditions from only a few days prior is really quite staggering.

Anyway, here tis... served with a nice helping of onions

Didn't bother processing beyond Regi...

iceman (Mike) · #2 31-07-2006, 10:52 PM

hey a month ago you would've been happy with that!

Amazing how we raise the bar on ourselves. I still think it's a good shot Matt, better than some of the rubbish i've captured lately.

matt · #3 31-07-2006, 10:55 PM

Yeah... true, but you know what it's like though, right?

Once you've had a taste of some of the better stuff it's tough to go back

iceman (Mike) · #4 31-07-2006, 11:08 PM

I know exactly what that's like

Robert_T · #5 01-08-2006, 02:01 PM

Looking good Matt, there's definite improvement even in your poor seeing shots which suggests improvement in your techniques and processing all round

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By the way what exposure, frame rate and gain do you typically run?

cheers,

matt · #6 01-08-2006, 06:48 PM

Thanks Rob.

I vary the exposure between 1/25th and 1/33rd depending on the seeing and which produces the better result on the laptop screen on the night.

I've found, though, that 1/25th tends to give my images a little more saturation.

I'm normally working at 10fps... will occasionally try 5fps if the seeing looks up to it and I dare take the risk of only capturing 500-600 frames in an avi.

The gain varies also depending on the night, but anywhere between 40/50% up to 65/70%