Started out with horrible twinkling for stars at 11pm, got up at 1.30pm and it was 5 or 6/10, so took a couple vids of saturn. got back up at 4.30am and watch it evolve from say 6/10 to 8 or 9/10. Did not want to move, breathe or do anything to make the seeing conditions change.
temps were stable at 7.5 degrees. I have taken video at 10fps, 15fps and 5fps and then because on the screen, it looked like 8 out of 10 frames were steady, i jumped into raw mode and then stood there breathless looking at the improvement on the screen. Io had transitted, but was still visible at the gain / exposure settings.
Well, i have lotsa video to process. Here are a 320x240 saturn, a 320x240 at a couple of wavelets settings jupiter and the first of the 640x480 at a couple of wavelets settings. they have all been run through registax to get a feel for the night. The seeing improved after these. you can see IO in the 640 x 480 at about 10 oclock
Nice avi, that's a single frame, wow.
They've come up well David, your images are rocking, well done mate.
Do you have that avi stored somewhere where I can download it, i'd love to have a looksee.
here is a quick run through with registax, pretty much the entire 600 frames stacked, soft wavelets a maximum & 10x2 ME decnvolution unsharp mask gamma reduce, contrast reduce
Nice work David!! I went out until about10:45pm but pretty blurry out there. That usually puts me off for the night, but boy I bet your glad you perservered!!
i have added the .tiff files ini a zip file (aprox 8mb) it has the stacked versions with varying wavelets and also individual red green and blue with varying wavelets.
fell free to have play guys in astral image or whatever
Those last six are great Davo, I particularly like the top left one. Guess what colour I am. You are very lucky, we have had in Adelaide area nothing better than 4/10 for at least 6 months. I am so sick of this seeing that I am contemplating moving to another state on the east or west coast. Adelaide seems to constantly get crap seeing. Either I move or I sell all my scopes and pack it in. Sorry just venting some spleen.
youve earned it mate - top effort! :-))
