Saturn from 8th & Reprocess of Jupiter from 7th

davidpretorius · #1 08-01-2006, 11:27 AM

Saturn from last night @ 1/25, 75%, @10fps. 1083 out of 1800 frames. Seeing was very good 7/10
Jupiter from the night before @ 25% 10fps, taken at 320x200 video mode (an oversight) and resampled in registax @ 2x, 1774 frames

i have each with no wavelets, soft wavelets, medium wavelets, hard wavelets.

no other processing in astra image, so please feel free to have a go.

asimov (John) · #2 08-01-2006, 01:27 PM

Wow mate Very nice! All hail the new planet masterrrr!

You made the most outa that sucker hole in the jetstream this morning over Tassie did'nt you! You lucky toUcam operator you!

Lucky to be 3/10 here last night, but I'm stacking saturn as I type this in any case, they should turn out lovely!

Dennis · #3 08-01-2006, 01:34 PM

Hi Dave

Jupiter has suffered due to your..ahem...slight oversight reported in a previous post, but the Saturns look great. I prefer the last one.

Cheers

Dennis

asimov (John) · #4 08-01-2006, 01:55 PM

I tried reprocessing Joop but got the dreaded onion ring effect.

asimov (John) · #5 08-01-2006, 02:11 PM

Had a play with your #2 Saturn. I have no 'official' astro-piccy manipulation programs but it's the best I could do with pic publisher 8.

asimov (John) · #6 08-01-2006, 02:22 PM

And Joop 2.

Robert_T · #7 08-01-2006, 03:19 PM

nice shots DP (and nice reprocess too Asi). Plenty of equatorial detail, festoons and such on joops and nice warn colour on saturn's globe

davidpretorius · #8 08-01-2006, 06:56 PM

thanks guys, will try again tonight.

getting up to the iis . transit thingy and making sure i take lots of 120 sec videos.

i will cross my fingers that i can resolve io, but who knows????

beren · #9 09-01-2006, 04:00 AM

Wow Dav , very nice well done

iceman (Mike) · #10 09-01-2006, 06:29 AM

Excellent work Dave, well done!

matt · #11 09-01-2006, 06:32 AM

Nice Dave, very nice.

Really appreciate your thorough posts re: capture details etc

Keep it going!!!!

davidpretorius · #12 09-01-2006, 08:16 AM

thanks all for feedback, i have even got the "e" as in excellent from the boss (iceman)!!!!

scuse me while i go and strut around the office for an hour or two!!!

ving (David) · #13 09-01-2006, 09:51 AM

A+ from the vingmiester

good stuff davo!

davidpretorius · #14 09-01-2006, 10:04 AM

more strutting to do.......an a+ from vingo!!!!

gbeal · #15 09-01-2006, 10:55 AM

Nice shots Dave, better to come for sure, but every dud night is a great night to master the settings.
The driven dob?
Gary

davidpretorius · #16 09-01-2006, 11:04 AM

you betcha gary, the driven dob!!!!

works a treat. hand controller at the moment, and i have played with the goto and a laptop, but i have to fine tune the calibration etc.

but at the moment, find the planet, start tracking, spend roughly 3 or 4 minutes refining the track and then guide it.

At 1000x magnification, i am very happy in both directions. The AZ bearing is the biggest so saturn at transit is super smooth on the screen and i am very happy with the smaller 6" alt bearing tracking with jupiter at the moment as it rises etc.

Basically it simply works, best $$ i have spent. The whole setup now is so easy, that i wheel it out on the dob buggy and within 5 minutes, i am tracking a planet at 1000x.

Cooling the mirror is next, i have ordered some peltiers and i have bought a large ball bearing fan like what comes on the bintel 12" dobs.

As you can see from my ramblings, i am very happy.

gbeal · #17 09-01-2006, 11:40 AM

Great Dave,
Glad it worked as you wanted. The ability to track and image with the dob is simply awesome.
Gary

RB (Andrew) · #18 09-01-2006, 12:43 PM

Dave, you put a smile on my face today, thank you for those great shots.
I love em.

Well done my friend, top marks.

PS nice reprocessing too John.