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Nice image, I had some similar last night but not as good. Is that olympus mons at around one o'clock?

Absolutely Love the fine detail, really nice image.

Ps hope you & your family feel better 👍

On 03/12/2022 at 18:49, jjosefsen said:

Wow that is some nice subs, you are getting there! Nice work!

Thanks for your comments 👍

Love how natural it looks, I keep over processing mine but it's true that less is more.

When you say 15% sharpening in registax is that just the top slider?

43 minutes ago, neil phillips said:

Not even close. More capture time allows a shorter exposure a higher frame rate. (because of SNR) Which helps beat seeing. It also enables via a large stack rate. Much stronger sharpening on programs like Astro surface. Which will 100% reveal more detail. Then any minimalist technique. Under poor seeing recently i managed to get a level of detail using this technique that looked like it was taken in reasonable seeing. The technique also alluded others detail wise on the same night. The result was easy to see its superiority. For the reasons outlined the law of diminishing returns is misleading.

Sorry to jump in, so does astro surface just replace registax in your processing?

Finally had a go with derotating some images in winjup. Takes me a while to figure these things out 🙄

Weathers so awful, but managed to get a few goes at Mars on the 28th, really hard to get focus as the jetstream was bouncing it all over the place as usual.

5 avi's of 4mins. Setup- 250p, 2.5x rev barlow, QHY5-462c with IR-cut. 1st is the combined 2nd is one of the single subs

I know its still overprocessed & still trying to get the colour balance right but enjoying the learning process just not the stinking weather 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for looking

3 hours ago, Kon said:

Thanks for the comment.

I have no issue with my pipp. I also shoot at 300fps and I  regularly get 60-70000 frames. I use the default quality settings and vary between 60-80% of the frames. Is it worth uninstalling and reinstalling it in case of a change in a setting you can't remember?

Will try that thanks Kon 👍

20 minutes ago, neil phillips said:

Thats strange mine is capped at 99k ? 

Any idea how to change it?

Lovely images Kon.

Glad you picked up the smaller polar cap I had that & thought it was due to the jetstream bouncing the image all over the place 👍

I presume you use Pipp to centre the image & quality control. Do you find that no matter how big the file is it won't let you keep more than 40k frames in quality estimation? Only ask as I've tried a higher frame rate of 400+(because of the dreadful conditions) which gives over 100k to put into pipp but when using the quality options it won't let me use more than 40k.

Love the detail you are able to pull out 👍 I'm struggling to even get a proper sphere with the awful conditions 🤦

Lovely clear night down on the IOW thought better get the scope out, but as usual seeing wasn't that great, really struggled to get clean focus, maps showed the jetstream was below us but there was still a wobbly flow......😠

Anyway managed a couple of 4 min avi's before the mist rolled in, they are a little clearer but still not great & a little over sharpened! 2 images 10 mins apart.

setup- NEQ6, 250p, x2.5 barlow, QHY5 462c, UV IR-cut,

18 hours ago, Kon said:

Conditions were a bit better for Mars last night and I managed an acceptable capture. 8" Dob, manual, asi462mc, 2.5x TV powermate. Resized 150%.

Lovely image, I see the eagles back 😜🤣🤣

Ah love it, great detail & the eagle to 🦅

I'm jealous , you must have had some steady conditions, although the Jetstream is just below us mine is still bouncing around like a pin ball machine.

Love the image 👍

9 hours ago, knobby said:

Not the only wat to do it by any means but Photoshop or GIMP works.

Wow thanks for that, you're a star 👍

15 hours ago, Kon said:

Excellent images if that's your first attempt. Some very nice details.

For the ring you could select and fill it with same background colour.

 

Thanks Kon, have to be honest I did try Mars many years ago 🙄 this is the first time with a proper camera.

Thanks for the advice 👍

3 hours ago, geoflewis said:

Excellent images. As @Kon says, to get rid of the ring artefact, just select the planet in PS, Affinity, or what ever image processing tool you prefer, then invert to select the background and fill with the same colour.

Thanks geoflewis, will have a go at that.

2 hours ago, knobby said:

In case you don't have any editing programs I had a quick dabble for you.

Hope you don't mind ?

Really nice Mars.

Love it 😀, I'll have to learn how to do that myself

Once again the stinking jetstream sat right on top of us, misty but really surprised to get a small ammount of detail. Well chuffed!

250p, NEQ6, QHY5 462c, 3min avi's

P.S- Anyone know how to get rid of the rings around Mars after using wavelets? Can't see them on my laptop but plugged into the TV & they really stood out thanks.

Awesome pics especially the last one, love the detail. 

Animation is great to 👍

1 hour ago, imakebeer said:

Nice pic 👍 In my pics that brown band about 2/3 of the way up always more red-purple, maybe I need to play around more with RGB correction (that said, I've never been to Jupiter so hard to know what colour is correct! 😂)

Newbie question - how can you tell about the jetstream, what do you look for? I get the general idea about "seeing" and atmospheric turbulence, and the Clear Outside app tries to tell me how good or bad it is, but beyond this what are the telltales?

Some can tell by just looking outside no idea how!

I find as soon as you get Jupiter on screen even before you start focusing etc it's bouncing around all over the place. Also when its slightly out of focus you can see the violent (obvious at the moment🤦) steam of flow from the Jetstream, it's a bit like a strong current in a river.

You can look at the Jetstream forecast online (Google search) to get an idea of what to expect.

Had to have a go last night, first time in ages had a little bit of clear sky inbetween the wind & mist. Seeing looked slightly better but...... as I turned the camera on- yes you guessed it the sky was boiling under the blooming jetstream AGAIN!

Anyway got a little detail come through even though the pipp videos were jumping around all over the place. Still getting used to processing with the new camera, probably to noisy still, really can't wait to have a go on a still clear night, I can but dream.

A few from last night with 10" reflector, QHY5-462c, 2min AVI's

Lovely image, some great detail on there 👍

Fantastic images, love the detail 👍

1 hour ago, neil phillips said:

Nice animation good result. Pipp can convert to Giff

Thanks Neil changed it in pipp, you're a lovely chap 👍

2 hours ago, Mandy D said:

Try this:

https://www.freeease.net/i-videotogifconverter/overview.php

thanks for the reply

Not sure how to convert to a giff

Thought I'd have a quick go at a little animation.

Its a little stuttery as its only 9 frames spanning about an hour on the 26th with rubbish seeing but great fun nonetheless.

2_pipp.avi

15 hours ago, CraigT82 said:

Very nice shots, this latest generation of cameras are a real game changer 

Thanks, looking forward to learning how to get the best out of the 462c

14 hours ago, neil phillips said:

Very Nice start. Looking promising for those good nights. Think you have made quite a big improvement already. Congrats on the new camera and first light

Appreciate your comments

13 hours ago, Kon said:

Nice set of images despite the conditions.

Thanks, again we all are waiting for that one lovely clear still night..... dreaming!