Jupiter ... What am i doing wrong?

[TechnoViking (James)]

Hi Murphy,

I was using the following settings in video mode (Press MENU)
FIRST MENU
Movie Exposure: Manual
AF Mode: Live Mode
SECOND MENU
Movie rec.size 1920x1080 (3-10 zoom) 24fps
sounds recording: Disable
Metering timer: 16sec
Grid Display - ON (personal preference)

Press the ISO button and select 200 or 400 which i found to give the best results.

Its looking pretty good outside at the moment with some fast moving high level clouds which will hopefully bugger off in the next few hours, so im hoping to try the supplied software to control the DSLR - Have a look down this post and you will see a reply by Mark_Heli which has the full menu "screen shot" and a step by step instruction on how to set it using the supplied EOS software (Im not sure if the 550D has the same software)

I dont think you can stack 2 different avi's togeather unless you were to join the 2 AVI's togeather as one video then stack them? I use to know a great free program that joined AVI's , i think it was called DivFIX or AVIjoin cant remember which one it was
Good luck, and make sure you post the end result if it works, i would love to see it!

[2stroke (Jay)]

check this out http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/M..._Firmware_Wiki , havent got to play with yet as the 1100D is still in beta bah

[astronobob (Bob)]

Very interesting thread James,
And well done on your Juup images mate
Ive had a 600D now for approx 1 yr and havnt yet tried the Video mode, too much habit of taking stills, This thread has seen my mind taken a different light to taking the video plunge

Cheers and watching with interest ! !

[Jen]

Hi James I was about to post the same thread as this one
A couple of days ago I had my first attempt in video mode of Jupiter also did you use a powermate or Barlow?
The seeing was fantastic and I have heaps of videos but i now don't know what to do with them next
I will watch this thread with interest

[Eggmoon (Geoff)]

Ok... firstly... I am not pretending to be an expert in any way, shape or form... I have only been gathering images for a few months now... maybe 3 months... hard to keep track when having so much fun!!

I have been using the movie mode on my Canon 60D... in fact, the "Movie Crop" mode... which only uses the centre 640 x 480 of the sensor... brings things in a LOT closer. Even without my newly acquired Powermate 2.5x I was getting great (great for my total amatuer status) results from Jupiter.

When I added the Powermate into the mix... let me tell you... I almost wet my pants with excitment!!!

I am using BackyardEOS to collect my images... you need to go to the "Planetary" section with the camera on "M" or "B" and hit the live view button... then switch to the movie mode on the camera, with the movie crop mode selected.

Being so highly zoomed between the two of them, Powermate and Movie Crop mode, it can be hard to get Jupiter to stay in the frame for long enough to collect enough frames... this image was stacked from an initial 4,000 frames... using AVIStack to reject the worst 33% at stage one, and the the worst 33% of the reminder at the later stage where you can select again in the process.

This is my best Jupiter image yet... two of the moons have come up ok... the stacking process in AVIStack seems to help brighten them up from the dim state they started in... but one of them, Europa from memory, seems oddly shaped.

In the short time I have been imaging.... I have already collected over 700GB of video data. No... I am not kidding... 700GB!!!!

Geoff.

[TechnoViking (James)]

Originally Posted by Jen

Hi James I was about to post the same thread as this one
A couple of days ago I had my first attempt in video mode of Jupiter also did you use a powermate or Barlow?
The seeing was fantastic and I have heaps of videos but i now don't know what to do with them next
I will watch this thread with interest

The first thing i do is the most painful part of the whole procedure, converting MOV -> AVI, im using Pazera MOV-AVI Converter, which is very basic and the end AVI product seems to have lost some of its detail! when i compare the 2 videos AVI in Windows Media Player and the MOV in VLC playing both the videos at the same time you can really see a difference. I wish registax could stack MOV files maybe it does and i just haven't found the option yet?

Next i open the AVI in registax, use the slider at the bottom to select the clearest frame, click Align, once that's done, i click stack, then Click Wavelet and adjust the sliders until i get something that looks kind of like Jupiter lol

Im not sure if im even doing this correctly, but as i have said before the fun is in the failure and the success !!!

I dont use a barlow or powermate, just a T adapter and EOS ring.

[Eggmoon (Geoff)]

James,

Using BackyardEOS skips a step in there... it records directly to AVI's, so you dont lose any definition in the conversion step. There are also other tools that capture in AVI too. What they all do is take the "Live View" feed from the camera via the USB and convert that into the AVI file. Works like a charm! I am not saying the way you do it is wrong... just offering my method as an alternative.

And no... Registax cant import MOV files (be just as nice if the Canons could record in AVI instead of MOV)... thats why I went and found software that records AVI directly. I have also lately swapped from Registax to AVIStacker... although I do also love the results I get from Registax, I found that Registax occassionally spits the dummy and doesnt load some AVI files... but AVIStacker seems to have no trouble.

AVIStacker does take longer... but you can also set up a good batch process if you have a zillion AVI's you want processed.

There seems to be many packages out there... and for a begginer like me they are very daunting.... even learning Registax, then AVIStacker seemed beyond me at first... but slowly nutted them out. So worth it though... loving making images!!! Wanting to try some deep space stuff next....

[Jen]

Thanks for he tips guys yes registax is doing my head in when I try to put an avi file in it doesn't like it and when I try to stack images it's too big

[Eggmoon (Geoff)]

Jen,

Try AVIStacker 2.0, not trying to say it's better... or you should swap permanently, but give it a go and see if it can load your fiels that Registax can't.

I have just started using DeepSkyStacker to try out some images I took of Orion... cant get it to do much for me at all... another learning curve coming up... *sigh*

Geoff