Jupiter - final from the 9th

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi.

Here's my final version(s) of the data captured on the 9th February 2006.

Spent a little more time processing this avi, which I considered the best out of the 11. I did a separate run aligned on Io and recombined the two images, as Io moves faster than Jupiter rotates.

I also reprocessed using a Mitchell 1.3x upsize value meal to see how big it could go and still hold up the detail. It still looks quite good at this size.

These shots were @ 10fps, and the usual processing routine was employed:
Virtual Dub (save as bmp's) -> ppmcentre (centre object, crop and estimate) -> split into RGB (netpbm tools) -> Registax (align and stack each colour) -> AstraImage (process each colour and then recombine) -> photoshop (final curves and contrast)

Quite happy with the final image, however I still think it's a *tad* soft due to seeing, focus or collimation. I'll blame one or all of those 3

Comments welcome.

[Dennis]

Slightly soft - yes. However, your Jupiter is still a superb image showing a wealth of detail, with rich but natural looking colours.

Cheers

Dennis

[ving (David)]

wonderful mike, ttuely wonderful

[John K]

that's amazing detail there Mike, well done!

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys.

Here's a slightly reprocessed version of the upsized one.. just adjusted some colour balance to make it less blue.

[Robert_T]

Nice Mike, GRS and banding detail is brilliant, even reckon I can see a tad of detail on the moon there

cheers,

[ving (David)]

there apears to be a line thru the moon, whats that?

[iceman (Mike)]

Just an artifact from the seeing/stacking. It's such a small number of pixels, it doesn't take much for the seeing fluctations to drag a few pixels either side of round.

[ving (David)]

Mkay, thanks mike

[davidpretorius]

excellent stuff

[asimov (John)]

Nice images mate!

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

niceee pics mike. can really see the band details.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Really nice Mike. Well worth getting up for