Imaged Saturn at opposition

rumples riot · #1 14-01-2005, 10:38 AM

Ok last night 13 Jan 05 I images Saturn with the LPI and K3CCDtools and got five AVI's of around 2000 frames each. I was surprised to see that the LPI could image at 15 frames a second. Anyway started to run one of them through Registax3 and found that it lost track of the alignment feature and then just stalled. When I tried to exist the program it just went ahead and aligned (5 minutes later) and then shut down

I found the same problem with Mikes AVI's of Jupiter, so Mike how do you get around this problem? I have noticed that I had to advance a couple of frames to start the alignment process as there was nothing on the first frames. Help guys I am stuck, and I think that the see was good enough to get a great shot.

Thanks

iceman (Mike) · #2 14-01-2005, 10:49 AM

Click the "misalign warning" checkbox under the "tracking" tab on the side bar..

How big is the avi (compressed)? I wouldn't mind having a shot at processing it too

if you've got some webspace to upload it to.

rumples riot · #3 14-01-2005, 10:55 AM

I think that they are all around 316 MB. Nice and chunky, I don't think that I have a web space account. But I could dump them on a CD and send them to you.

iceman (Mike) · #4 14-01-2005, 11:19 AM

Try winzipping them, it's amazing how small they come down cause a lot of it is just black space..

My 150meg file zipped down to 2.8 meg.

rumples riot · #5 14-01-2005, 11:29 AM

Alright thank Mike for the tips. See what I can do.

rumples riot · #6 14-01-2005, 12:58 PM

Mike how do you remove unwanted frames in the AVI. The first six have nothing on them and are causing a floating point problem in registax

[1ponders] (Paul) · #7 14-01-2005, 01:09 PM

Hey something I can solve.

A fine Gentleastronomer on this site put me onto Virtual Dub. Free download. Open you avi in it and just delete away the frames. Too easy.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #8 14-01-2005, 01:16 PM

Thanks Conus and Ice

iceman (Mike) · #9 14-01-2005, 01:50 PM

yep, that's what I do now..

There's a few dust donuts on my chip still, so I open the avi's in registax, append the consecutive avi's, use right-arrow to go through each frame and delete the ones too close to the edge or the ones with donuts, using the delete key, and then just click "save as avi".