Jupiter 18-Nov

[Troy]

Thanks Peter and Ray.

[Troy]

Originally Posted by Poita

any more info on equipment and processing techniques?

Not sure if you have seen my equipment page here
Mike Salway has a tut on this in the articles page and another good one is from Paul Haese website how to section.
I use ninox: To crop and centre the image. This program works well for low end and midrange mounts and allows registax to do a better and faster job.
Registax: Align, stack and to apply wavelets.
Astra Image: After registax I like to apply deconvolution filter and rotate the image.
Winjupos: Image measurement and to combine my rgb channels for a colour image.
Photoshop: Adjust colour, sharpen image(unsharp mask and sometimes highpass filter) and size image to taste.
That's it

[Troy]

Originally Posted by Poita

People keep bagging out SCTs, but the best planetary stuff I see tends to come from SCT owners.

A lot of people from around the world produce very good images from mass produced sct scopes. For the price you pay they are not bad at all. Mind doesn't seem to suffer from image shift or mirror flop etc..., maybe the larger sct's suffer from this
The high focal ratio and being a compact scope is really handy for me as I set up my equipment, image and then everything goes back inside the house

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

These are great images Troy, beautifully processed too and if this is less than optimal seeing I look forward to what you will show in good conditions

Mike

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by Poita

People keep bagging out SCTs, but the best planetary stuff I see tends to come from SCT owners.

Originally Posted by Troy

A lot of people from around the world produce very good images from mass produced sct scopes. For the price you pay they are not bad at all. Mind doesn't seem to suffer from image shift or mirror flop etc..., maybe the larger sct's suffer from this
The high focal ratio and being a compact scope is really handy for me as I set up my equipment, image and then everything goes back inside the house

SCT's and Newt's can both do excellent work for planetary imaging.

The 14" SCT's are well known across the world now as most of the world's best use them (Damian Peach among them). They have long focal length, plenty of aperture.

But there's plenty of the world's best using large newt's - Anthony (bird), Trevor (Quark) and Wes Higgins to name but 3.

They each have their strengths and weaknesses.