Jupiter 15th Feb from tassie - optimised colour mode

[davidpretorius]

seeing 9/10 at times
1/50 exposure
50% gain
50% gamma
100% saturation
50% brightness
50% contrast
5fps for 90seconds

[ving (David)]

it's.... invisible!!!

[Portmac]

Nice, think I need to get me one of them powermates

[davidpretorius]

yes they are great, the 25mm series 500 thru it = 5mm so i get a nice view as well!

[h0ughy (David)]

you planetary guys get great shots!

[ving (David)]

ok, it was invisible but now its there.
on ya dave, great pic

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thats a terrible shot....

WHAT AM I SAYING.... THATS A BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done dave, your getting quite good at this now.

Oh this makes my post count 800, what a way to do it

[Robert_T]

DP not sure which I like best this or the 840K mode, but they're both truly beautiful shots to be proud of

I note that on the images you say your's stacking red, blue and green separately - are you going B&W now with filters or are you splitting the colours out at some point in the process?

[davidpretorius]

no have not gone the 3x more sensitive route just yet. jupiter turns too quick for me to manually change between r.g.b.

mike and i do this step different. mike will virtual dub the avi into bmps and then ppm centre it and them netpbm via some unix script into separate rgb bmps.

i grab the original video and use aviraw 2.5 and it then splits this video into 3 separate videos, from there i can stack the video or convert into bmps for centring with ppmcentre.

if you have a great avi, then i really suggest splitting, as the colours vary so much in quality and wavelets etc. worth the extra effort