best jupiter in the world :rolleyes:

[ving (David)]

here we go...
taken last night, seeing was really bad (2-3/10)

[ving (David)]

hmm... a bit heavy heanded with the first one

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Glad to see you're getting out there and making the most of a rapidly disappearing Jupiter ving.

Details man, details. Settings, scope, mount, time, place, were you allowed back in the house after spending all night outside? Details.

[asimov (John)]

No, I like the first one best, it shows more details!

Great job Mista!

Permission to have a go at reprocessing it for ya!

[ving (David)]

8" newt f6
lpi plus 2 2x barlows.

pretty standard k3 settings. I noticed that when the pros here take pics the have the exposure set to 1/25th or something... i do that and it disapears of the screen!!! i had to have 1/6" exposure!!! seem awfully long! whats with that?

standard processing as per mikes tute except the first one which i went heavy on teh wavelettes...
thats about it.
oh and fiddled in psp8 with unsharp and other stuff

[ving (David)]

re process away asi

[joe_smith]

Good ones Ving They look pretty cool.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I noticed that when the pros here take pics the have the exposure set to 1/25th or something... i do that and it disapears of the screen!!! i had to have 1/6" exposure!!! seem awfully long! whats with that?

something strange there. What are your gain and fps settings? I might get a chance tomorrow night to get the LPI out and check it out. Those onion rings you are getting are normally a sign of the gain not being set high enough.

[Hitchhiker]

Well done, ving.

i had to have 1/6" exposure

For my Jupiter images with my LPI (10" SCT & 2.5x Powermate) I use 1/4 to 1/5 of a sec exposure.

I remember Paul posted an article on K3CCDTools not reporting exposure times correctly for the ToUCam (the exposure time reported varied with the fps). I use Envisage for my captures and about 1/4 sec fills the histogram nicely.

[asimov (John)]

Yeah, the good ol' onions come into the picture if you try to reprocess

Oh well.

[RB (Andrew)]

Goodonya David.

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker

Well done, ving.



For my Jupiter images with my LPI (10" SCT & 2.5x Powermate) I use 1/4 to 1/5 of a sec exposure.

I remember Paul posted an article on K3CCDTools not reporting exposure times correctly for the ToUCam (the exposure time reported varied with the fps). I use Envisage for my captures and about 1/4 sec fills the histogram nicely.

good to hear. i thought i was going crazy!

[acropolite (Phil)]

You're getting there Ving, the colours look very natural.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I've just run a session throough the LPI and there were no Onion Rings but boy the colour sucks. I'll finish processing it and post it later.

Edit:

Here's the image. There are no/very little onion but the colour is woeful. I wasn't able to do anything with the exposure so I just used the default exposure of 50ms and adjusted the ones I could. I will admits that I found it very frustrating trying to get the settings right.

I also did a run using Virtual Dub capture, but I can't find where VD saved it to . I'll track it down and post it later

[Lester]

Hi Mr. Ving-a-ling,

Nice to see some of your stuff, and I would say that is quite a reasonable result with the conditions you had. Yep I also like to see the most detail= the first one, colour is good. Can you increase your gain and either decrease brightness or shorten your exposure, to keep the image at the same brightness. Looks like you had the exposure just right in the first one, just gotta kill the onions.

Like I said nice to see your stuff.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I like the first one best, great colour.
Keep em coming.

[beren]

Good on yer ving

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

yes i think you did well as conditions here-visually were shocking. the image in the eyepiece was bubbling all over the place

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by Lester

Hi Mr. Ving-a-ling,

Nice to see some of your stuff, and I would say that is quite a reasonable result with the conditions you had. Yep I also like to see the most detail= the first one, colour is good. Can you increase your gain and either decrease brightness or shorten your exposure, to keep the image at the same brightness. Looks like you had the exposure just right in the first one, just gotta kill the onions.

Like I said nice to see your stuff.

they all had the same exposure seting. Gain isnt where it should be in k3ccd (ie with the rest of the cammera settings), infact i couldnt find gain at all! I just work on getting a certain image brightness on the screen.

[Lester]

Hi Ving,

I don't use that program, perhaps someone that does can inform you on where the gain control is. That will help minimise the onion rings.