Got up for Jupiter this morning, and managed to capture the end of a Europa shadow transit and the start of a Europa transit. The GRS came into view right at the end, but the seeing started to deteriorate.
The seeing was very good - probably the best i've seen. Pretty consistent at 8/10 and sometimes a little better. I had to double check sometimes to make sure the image was still recording, it was that still at times it was hard to see any shift between frames.
Here's a very quick and dirty process straight from the avi through registax and wavelet only process (fairly hard wavelets). I do this as a first run through the avi's to find the best avi to process.
Here's just one of the first ones, to show what i've got to go through later, processing 12 avi's I'll try and make an animated gif out of these too.
Beautiful Mike, already excellent and no doubt has the makings with a bit more iceman processing magic to be an absolute pearler!
You got the best of the seeing over Bris-vegas this morning (at least my bit of Bris, don't know 'bout Dennis). I was up at the same time, perhaps a bit earlier and am processing now... to be frank though I'm dissappointed. Had to constantly dodge cloud and while I would have put the seeing at 7/10, in processing looking at the amount of disc edge oscillation and the relatively poor result it must have been less more like 5-6/10 - but it all goes around and comes around so
mike, that is the best detail i have seen on one of your planets. and it is about time you got the 8/10 seeing where as you say, the image does not move!!!!
cancel church, family commitments & anything else and get processing. tell your wife that house can stay in a mess and that the kids will be fine watching dvds and playing games and eating delivered pizza for the next two days. that is until you have satisfied your mates on IIS and then we will give you back!
Wow again – that is an awesome image Mike. I was cosy and fast asleep in bed, so nothing from me. Look forward to seeing yours and Robert’s efforts when you’ve chugged through the avi’s.
I've run all the avi's through ppmcentre and netpbm tools, so I have my 13 lots of separate R/G/B bmp's, already cropped, centered and ready for Registax!
Coming today.. didn't get time to do it yesterday, and I don't trust the final RGB processing on the laptop screen. Wanted to wait until it was on a CRT (today).
hmm chugging the way through these, they're turning out better than I thought. It's almost the exact same face from my Jupiter of the 18th Feb, and the increase in detail can easily be seen.
I also found that a first pass through didn't give me the results I was hoping for, so I had to troubleshoot what was going wrong. I found that by stacking less frames (only 100, instead of 350), is giving me a much sharper result.
I'm also suffering from onion rings if I push the processing too hard, which is a pain. The white level was at 185 in these captures, and gain was at 15% because transparency was so good. It could be the lack of gain causing the onion rings, not really sure.. but with only 100 frames stacked, and LR deconvolution of 7/1.2 it's keeping it at bay (mostly).
I'm now busy doing the reprocess to all 12 avi's again, so I can create an animation.. so far so good! Just very time consuming.
I'll try and make an animated gif out of these too.
more like 5-6/10 - but it all goes around and comes around so 
