Jupiter, March 14, getting better

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 15-03-2007, 09:36 PM

Here's another image from this morning, processed more carefully at 150% size. sadly this takes a long time to do.

I've just finished the red light layer, Io looks nice :-)

cheers, Bird

DobDobDob (Ron) · #2 15-03-2007, 09:45 PM

That looks really good

matt · #3 15-03-2007, 09:46 PM

That's excellent, Anthony!

Io is an actual three-dimensional sphere

Great stuff

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #4 15-03-2007, 11:35 PM

Here's a first cut at the colour result, not quite right yet but I'll fix it tomorrow after I get some sleep :-)

cheers, Bird

iceman (Mike) · #5 16-03-2007, 04:14 AM

Absolutely stunning!

Do you do your resizing in ppmcentre before registax?

John K · #6 16-03-2007, 06:35 AM

Big and beautifull! well done Anthony

Dennis · #7 16-03-2007, 07:23 AM

Fantastic results Anthony!

Cheers

Dennis

iceman (Mike) · #8 16-03-2007, 07:35 AM

How long were your captures for, Anthony?
How did you manage to keep Io round? Is it a composite?

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #9 16-03-2007, 08:54 AM

Mike, I use the resample option in ninox (used to be ppmcentre) before I run registax. Registax does not support resampling of fits files :-(

Each channel is 50 seconds, and I had to compromise the stack slightly by offsetting the red channel 1 pixel to get Io close. It's still not quite right, the offset should be 2 pixels, but it looks ok. It's not a composite.

cheers, Bird

davidpretorius · #10 16-03-2007, 10:04 AM

beautiful bird! gotta be happy with that!!!

DobDobDob (Ron) · #11 16-03-2007, 12:20 PM

Everyone else used up all the good superlatives, so how about this old fashioned term for your image, it left me "Gob Smacked"

Ric · #12 16-03-2007, 12:55 PM

Very nice Bird, Io looks very spectacular.

Cheers

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #13 16-03-2007, 01:11 PM

Thanks guys. I'm going away over the weekend (it's a long w/e in canberra) so I'll take my laptop and keep working on these. Might have something to post when I get back.

cheers, Bird

iceman (Mike) · #14 16-03-2007, 02:53 PM

Here's my shot of pretty much exactly the same time as Bird's.

Interesting to note they look almost identical, except for the image scale of course due to Anthony's resampling

davidpretorius · #15 16-03-2007, 04:32 PM

gee they are close!!!

yes, ninox is pretty neat with the upsize =3/2 or whatver the command.

guys, these images are so pleasing to the eye! well done

Satchmo · #16 17-03-2007, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Interesting to note they look almost identical, except for the image scale of course due to Anthony's resampling

Given that you guys are shooting through similar atmosphere ( not Mauna Kea !) , similar aperture , similar cameras and similar image processing, the similarity would be expected. To give credit to the work he puts into mirror cooling and image processing, I'd say Anthonys picture ( left ) contains more real information . You guys are clearly working close to the edge of the 'envelope' though.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #17 19-03-2007, 06:44 PM

Just got back from a nice weekend away in the snowy mountains, had a wonderful walk on Sunday in clear blue skies...

Here's the 1837UTC image reprocessed.

regards, Bird

iceman (Mike) · #18 19-03-2007, 06:46 PM

Welcome back! Beautiful image Anthony, much smoother and so huge!. Well done!

davidpretorius · #19 19-03-2007, 06:48 PM

lovely detail, for some reason i thought you went to snake valley?

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #20 19-03-2007, 07:33 PM

Nope, couldn't make Snake Valley this time - we had this w/e booked in for an annual get-together with some friends.

I'll try and get to the next one though...

cheers, Bird