Jupiter (Adelaide) - 11/5/07

swannies1983 (Dan) · #1 12-05-2007, 10:47 PM

First attempt at Jupiter this season with my 8" Newt on the EQ6 using the Toucam.

200/1000 frames
1/33sec exposure
Brightness 50%
Sats 80%

One of the moons can be seen. I can't remember which one it was

iceman (Mike) · #2 13-05-2007, 06:15 AM

Well done, nice shot! You should probably try reducing the gamma or curves to give it a bit more depth, it's a little bit bright (at least on this laptop).

Nice job!

Dennis · #3 13-05-2007, 08:44 AM

A great way to open your Jupiter season. Along with Mike's advice, I'd probably try a run at a reduced exposure of 1/25 sec to give you more latitude with the Gain and compare it with the run at 1/33.

Also, I think that most ToUcam operators also set the Saturation to 100% IIRC?

Very nice detail and good focus.

Cheers

Dennis

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #4 13-05-2007, 08:53 AM

Yeah wasnt a bad night that, from where we were in Wallaroo we were seeing around 7.5/10 seeing. Transparency was about 9/10

Nice image there too, lots of detail.

swannies1983 (Dan) · #5 13-05-2007, 08:45 PM

Thanks for the input. I actually did have gamma set to minimum. I will take on board the other suggestions though. Just need the sky to clear again

iceman (Mike) · #6 14-05-2007, 06:42 AM

I'm talking about gamma in post-processing, or curves reduction in photoshop (for example).