Hi Guys,
The good seeing continued and ended up being the best this joop apparition. I rate it about 7.5/10. The shadow of IO was dead still most of the time.
Mirror temps were spot on at 13.9 a piece, so what could spoil the party......well the person who got drunk and spoilt it for all was the transparency....................hig h clouds and intermittant
Very happy with the results. The two images vary by the amount of gamma taken out. THe left by.8 and the right by .6
I am confident that there will be more nights like this but with the transparency behaving itself!!!
(now...off to talk to Bird re ppmcentring or noknickering fits files!! :s)
enjoy
Not as big as your ToUcam images, but imo these are smoother and sharper.
the best thing is that the is room to grow, ie longer focal length by getting a 16" or 12" mirror. the extra light will also mean i can go from 15fps to 30fps.
also by going astronomiks filters, it will help as well.
very happy with setup, the image scale is now at a size that is acceptable to me and it will only get bigger going into opposition
(now...off to talk to Bird re ppmcentring or noknickering fits files!! :s)
enjoy
DP, I use fits files for my own capturing, and ppmcentre should handle them ok, both 8 and 16 bit. Let me know if you have problems - so far nobody else except me uses the fits files so the code might not be properly tested.
top images DP, the capture of the blue festoon{?} in the centre looks great
