Mars/Saturn 16th Mar.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Found this data exceedingly difficult to work. Every Mars capture has clouded out sections in it, with me playing the gain slider like a damned fiddle again. Any resizing on any data coincided with lines & so had to rotate this one to kill them off. Plenty of other stuff went on to get this image to the best of my ability. All part & parcel in the black arts of planet imaging/processing at times

For what it's worth Mike. Nope. In 7 years of shooting planets, I've never been bored once

Bring on the next session!!

It sure is frustrating Asi when the detail in the live feed is good but the signal keeps swinging due to cloud wafting through. I reckon, particularly with Mars, that it maybe worth a try to just leave the histo at your selected optimum setting and take out the sections of crook avi later in VDub. That way at least you end up with a consistent max value of gain and even cutting out a few thousand cloud effected frames, if the detail is good, really doesn't matter too much.

Cheers
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

Yes Trevor, I'd love to be able to just cut the bad frames out with VD like I used to do, however AS!2 refuses to deal with/load any AVI saved as a 'full processed mode' ..

[asimov (John)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Yes Trevor, I'd love to be able to just cut the bad frames out with VD like I used to do, however AS!2 refuses to deal with/load any AVI saved as a 'full processed mode' ..

Damned software & computers are determined to make a fool of me - No sooner did I say the above that I tried it again, & this time it worked

Well ok, if problems are that easy to solve that all I have to do is say something doesn't work publicly to make it work, lets try this - "Under no circumstances do I get really good seeing!".............

............Nope, still raining outside! So much for that theory

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Damned software & computers are determined to make a fool of me - No sooner did I say the above that I tried it again, & this time it worked

Well ok, if problems are that easy to solve that all I have to do is say something doesn't work publicly to make it work, lets try this - "Under no circumstances do I get really good seeing!".............

............Nope, still raining outside! So much for that theory

Reckon your onto a winner there Asi.

A couple of times of late, while rotating my manual filter wheel, I have accidentally lost the planet from the capture screen. I am using FireCapture and have set it up to allow me 10 sec's to rotate the filter wheel between channels before it starts the next capture. There have been occasions where the next capture has started while I am still driving the planet back onto the capture screen, meaning that the first 3 or 4 hundred frames have been either of a black screen or partial planet.

Castrator has problems with these AVI's, so I have been loading them into VDub, deleting that section then running the edited AVI through Castrator and then AS 2 with no problems at all.

Regards
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

I've been onto it for years Trevor, for cutting & shutting but with one shot colour data depends what codec gets used as the if VD will touch it or not. VD is where I usually resize the data ready for Registax but AS!2 is singing that tune "can't touch this" right now..Without the resizing it's fine as far as cutting frames out is concerned. Plenty of other ways however. Oversampling at the scope: Drizzling: Resizing after: Etc..

[Clayton]

A lovely couple of shot's Asi

[Paul Haese]

Missed this one John, nice work. You have had a great apparition of both planets so far. Saturn is nice and smooth with lovely colour.

Mike, to go along with the fishing analogy it is like pulling in bigger and bigger examples of the same fish. As planetary imagers we are just never satisfied with if we have got that perfect image. Well maybe Anthony and Trev can say they have examples of the perfect Jupiter image. I reckon this is what drives us onward. I thought I had seen perfect seeing in 2008, but now having seen Bird's and Trevs data from 2010 I want to pursue that seeing further and keep trying to get that perfect image.

DSO by comparison has another angle at which our obsessive compulsions can be played out. Each image has to be better or more interesting than the last with more and more punch. Each image requires more time, planning and research.

So while seeing plays an ultimate part in planetary imaging (without out it we just cannot perform the processing that you see here), time and planning plays the part of the DSO image. Horses for courses.

[John K]

Beautifull images Asi,

certainly inspiring for others to get out there and image both planets.

Heaps of details and excellent processing!

[h0ughy (David)]

brilliant results - love the skill and effort for the great results

[asimov (John)]

Thanks guys. As I said earlier John, great to see you back in the game!

[John Hothersall]

Still fine results, looks like I have had my 2 goes per month for March with the permanent drizzle alley here in Bris.

John.