Kon

12 minutes ago, Tony Acorn said:

Thanks Kon, I'll investigate your leads buty I hate the idea of giving a Windows OS access to my Macs.

Tony

Crossover does not install windows as it is only an emulator and you do not need to partition any of your hard drive. I never owned a PC and I have to use one for my satellite tracking software and it is driving me nuts.

I am a Mac user and I use crossover to run all the planetary software without any problems (pipp, as!4, astrosurface, etc etc). Siril is also good for DSO work.

The earthshine has come out nicely and you can clearly recognise many features.

First one is better than the others but still very noisy. The seeing was probably not the best as it seems to be soft.

I hope you don't mind, but your workflow is way  too complicated. If you have a soft capture no tool is going to make it look sharp. Keep imaging and hope for the good seeing one night.

The topaz is making a mess and it's more obvious on the 2 and 3 image. ALPO discourages AI tools.

Have a play with Astrosurface and imageanalyzer.  Many of us have moved to it. I haven't had much success with wavesharp.

Finally, worth getting longer captures per channel so you have more data. In the long term, you may want to consider an OSC camera as you can capture several colour videos and derotate them.

7 hours ago, Ags said:

You mean FPS? Surely you can’t get more than 100 FPS with 10 ms frames?

Yes my bad, sorry. Ooops!....100fps. I was thinking of something else when I typed the value.

38 minutes ago, Ags said:

I thought the pros might do something radically different. I do 10ms as my laptop can't hit high frame rates for some reason...

Even at 10ms I still get 150-200ms with tight ROI.

48 minutes ago, fireballxl5 said:

Interesting.  Do you have link please?

You will need to go to the planetary imaging section and look back in 2022 posts. Sorry no link.

1 minute ago, Ags said:

They discarded 92% of frames from the first run and 96% from the second. And the frames are quite long - 10ms and 5ms in the second run. I thought they would be far shorter!

Most of us do around 10ms for Jupiter as it gives better noise to signal ratio. Going too fast sometimes is not that beneficial. I used to go for fast FPS but Geoff and Neil had done some nice experimentation here to change my thinking.

Very curious what it can pull out for Ganymede.

4 minutes ago, Ags said:

Here are the capture details: quite short sequences actually:

I note they use a water-cooled CMOS that can go up to 1000 FPS if they restrict the ROI.

I had a look at the paper and very small amount of stacked frames. I would love to see the raw images.

1 minute ago, Ags said:

Here are the capture details: quite short sequences actually:

I note they use a water-cooled CMOS that can go up to 1000 FPS if they restrict the ROI.

I had a look at the paper and very small amount of stacked frames. I would love to see the raw images.

Technical details here:

https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/shark-vis/home

I thought upgrading to the 12" from 8" would keep me happy with the planets 😂

32 minutes ago, tomato said:

I still don't know how you manage to get these shots, they are just amazing. You have not done a You tube video by any chance?😏

Thanks. I am really trying on getting the tracking to work. No YouTube but happy to make a more detailed post on setting up, capture and processing at some point.

Will you keep the goto on your new 16" setup? If I get it to work, I am happy to share how I did it.

2 hours ago, Clarkey said:

Once again, great shots. Did you make any progress on your automatic tracking plan?

Almost there. My antivirus is killing the connection between the mount and tracking software. I just need to turn it off and try.

Excellent images and details; I really like the inverted b&w one.

Nice one Reggie. Good to see it back. I hope to have a go at it next week when I am back from USA.

Very nice. The closeup prominences is excellent.

Beautiful set of images Nigella.

Another set of northern craters from the 15/05/24. Skywatcher 300P Flextube goto,  asi462mm, IR pass 685nm, 2.5x TV powermate.

Insane amount of details. Nice processing as always.

Excellent images. The full resolution is fantastic!

Another ISS pass at 60 degrees last night. I managed a few good frames despite the so and so seeing. I need to find the time to put the whole capture in an animation, but for now some of the best frames.

Apart from the several modules, I seem to have got the canadarm2 as well! 12" Flextube Goto, asi462mm, IR pass filter, 2.5x televue powermate. Manual tracking.

Excellent animation and the prominence looks really nice and delicate.

Beautiful image! Very nicely processed.

Really nice set of images under not so good conditions.