Another Jupiter from the 20th

[neil phillips]

Still trying to go through all the captures I got on the 20th  its a slow process. 

This is the best one so far I think

[SnakeyJ]

Cracking job Neil, some nice detail coming through in the central bands.

[theo]

Lovely Neil. More detail for sure and nicely weighted processing allowing the finer elements to show through.

Pete

[Vox45]

Nice job gives me hope to achieve something like this one day

[Space Cowboy]

Looking good Neil!

[simmo39]

V nice.

[neil phillips]

Thanks for the feedback. Getting a balance between fine detail, noise, smoothness ( or naturalness ) I don't always find easy Pete

Especially  when the captures are not top quality.

Either they are too smooth, or too noisy. Getting that balance in between, is a good goal to try and achieve.  Glad you guys think I am maybe getting that.  But it took a few attempts trying different things.

Btw Stuart, lately doing non drizzles which does affect the outcome, I have been doing linear in reg. At these focal lengths. and without using drizzle.i am finding dyadic too strong. Just using the top two wavelets on dyadic, works better on low contrast, high focal length drizzled shots.

which makes sense for two reasons.High focal length can often reduce contrast, and drizzling  reduces wavelet strength. These might be some of the reasons I have made dyadic work in the past. But I have noticed lately, without drizzling and at lower focal lengths. As stuart has always said. it quickly over cooks, and adds too much contrast. Just sharing my thoughts here guys.

also some reasons I haven't been using drizzle, is, I have been getting crazy paving. Even when I use box sizes around the 70 size. So because of the medium focal length. I put the boxes down to 50, used more of them. Then resized later. If anyone knows of other cures to crazy paving. using drizzle, I would be very interested.

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I think the processing is perfect - loads of detail, it looks un-processed and natural.

[Space Cowboy]

Interesting to hear your wavelet variations Neil. I too have not used drizzle for a while due to the mediocre seeing. I usually use box 100 if cracks appear at smaller sizes. For me box 50 only works in good seeing.

[Atlas]

Nice shot Neil. Your images still impress us all. *Also, looks like you are feeling better. How are you holding up these days?*

[neil phillips]

Nice shot Neil. Your images still impress us all. *Also, looks like you are feeling better. How are you holding up these days?*

Thanks for the kind words Atlas.  Up and down a lot of the time. Nothing especially serious as of yet. But I should be having a operation soon to remove my gall bladder. As it affected my liver recently which put me in hospital twice. I also have to have another operation for another problem, that's keeping me on antibiotics for long periods. I am hoping I will be a lot better by the summer. But will have to see.

As you can tell I don't really have the chances to do as much as I did in the past. and what with the horrible weather we have most of the time. Its hard getting great data. The last reasonably good data I got was last year with the 12" Sky watcher. And even that was only fleeting. Before we went into the winter time again.

But I still love planetary imaging. And hope to do it for perhaps a couple of years yet. Then its a poor showing for planets for years after.

Hows you Atlas good I hope ?  Btw merry xmas

[Atlas]

I'm doing just fine. We're in the same boat here in Germany. We haven't had a decent night of viewing here in months (All my equipment is getting dusty). Merry XMAS!

[Pete Presland]

nice end result.