Whoa! What a morning!! 14/01/05

[Mombat]

At the moment all i have is a no name 60mm refractor it's actually showed me some pretty good views of the moon Some of the brighter open clusters. But my granparents have a 80mm refractor from clestron. I could actually see the cassini division on saturn with it which was pretty cool

I don't really know what i should buy, but at home i have awesome dark skies. Problem is i'm moving down to melbourne to finish yr 11 and 12.

[Mombat]

I was thinking of getting maybe a 8" dob but i might wait till i'm back at home with more money to spend and better skies to view

[Comet Hunter]

Thanks for all the kind words guys

Damn it, it wasn't suppose to be the GRS - all that time I wasted on the moons ggrr, just went through a few of my moon capturing attempts...rather ordinary..think it'll be a while before I try that again.

A Jupiter day is apparently 9.8 hrs so....say 10hrs, thats about 1am ish tonight local time it'll be out again...hhmmm

Ice, how'd ya do that!! details my good friend! This is the best avi I've taken so I'll be working on it over and over for awhile, hopefully manage something similar to your results. The avi was taken at 5am using the 'Daylight' White balance option, shutter would've been either 1/15 or 1/30th (I think), 60sec avi @ about 20-25fps, redoing it now it only used about 250/1700odd frames in align and stacking!!!...

Mark, yeah we're slowing building up the numbers. You'd have some nice sky out you're way.

Edit:

Here's my attempt, reprocessed the whole lot using 900/1700odd frames....

http://comethunter.com/images/130105jupiterg2.jpg

[silvinator]

Nice job on CH's Saturn Ice. That looks like a much better Jupiter CH. The GRS is much more readily visible. It's amazing how much detail can be brought out with a little processing. Keep it up CH!
Hey Mombat, an 8 inch dob is a very good choice for you methinks. They are very affordable and there are some great deals to be had. A few forum members here have nabbed quite a few bargains and I believe they are all happy campers, well, except Striker but that's because one scope just isn't enough (Just teasing you Striker). I'm sure you'll be able to view heaps with the 8" in Melbourne. I live in Sydney and I have a 10" and it's not too horrible a battle with light pollution if you're just observing, though astrophotography-wise, it can be a struggle...but that's another kettle of fish altogether. Just get something you know will get used.

[Comet Hunter]

Thanks Silvie

Here's a pic of the raw avi for those interested...


http://comethunter.com/images/jupregistax.JPG

[iceman (Mike)]

Hey great rework CH, it looks like you got 1 of the moons in your reprocessed version, far off to the right!

You should also get registax version 3, it's better and faster than v2.

[Comet Hunter]

I've been trying out v3 for last week or so, unfortunately it aint ready for me yet - keep getting errors/crashing etc, that avi you posted up a day or so ago of Jupiter kept crashing in v3 but v2 stormed through like a champ.