Jupiter from tassie - had to post something

[davidpretorius]

Everything had cooled to within .5 of a degree and i was happy at the focus and avi. I was even going to rate the seeing 7 or 8/10. But upon processing, the result was crap, my thoughts immediately went to the marks on my mirror. Cold logic prevailed and I ended up comparing videos from my 9/10 night, the differences were huge. My mirror is safe from the hammer and a date with the insurance agent!

300 odd frames from optimized colour mode.

I have also included 40 frames zipped up in an avi from the best of the night on the 2nd June and also the one from late may. The files are roughly 3.5 mbyte each. I have also reduced the size from 640x480 to 256 x 192. Of course, reducing makes the quality better, but you should be able to see the difference.

So here is roughly 5/10

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/5-10.zip

and 9/10

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/9-10.zip

I also could not splilt antares.

[asimov (John)]

Damn dialup!

You unsharpmasked & sharpened that yet image??

[Robert_T]

I know what you mean DP, seeing is often hard to judge until you look at the avis. I've had more than a few time I thought I had something special only to be dissapointed at the registax end, and had some pearlers come out when I thought the seeing was ho hum.

Anyway nice detail though the scale is probably a bit beyond the seeing. Looks almost identical to a few I've taken of that face in 5-6/10 seeing with the 4x powermate.

cheers,

[davidpretorius]

no, it is lucky to get posted, a 3x1.1 exponential ME deconvolution in astra image, auto colour, a despeckle & and a slight curves adjust.

I had an "asi" moment. The results were crap, so I started arguing with the computer as I pressed delete on the folder that had the video and bmps etc. The computer asked me for confirmation "Do i want to delete", Of course I want to delete, can't you see that the final result is no good, even blind freddy can see that this is no good...When i press delete, of course i want to delete............................. ..

[davidpretorius]

thanks rob. I am being stubborn after having put the extension tube in. I refuse to un attach it from the powermate. Especially now since i have egged on Mike not to remove his...........

[asimov (John)]

Yeah, you'd think it would auto-delete any pics under 5/10 seeing wouldn't ya!?

Stoopid computer!!