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Excellent image. Lovely details and I like the colour balance.

Excellent set of images. I am finding the around 10ms range to be giving me better results too even under so and so conditions. Less noisy.

Great.

It should make the details pop more.

Please do, I will be delighted if you guys get good clear skies.

Thanks Stuart. We are missing good opportunities with this weather. I hope the weather holds for you. I am away for a long weekend with the family so no imaging for me.

Thanks. Yes visually it also looked good. A shame about the clouds.

Thanks John. Yes a lot is going on and there seems to be new features.

Nice details. You might want to up the saturation a bit.

I managed just a single capture through thin clouds before it all went dark tonight. Very stable seeing despite the clouds. It would have been an amazing capture, I think. My usual 8" setup. A mobile capture of the seeing (Jupiter is the bright one in the centre).

We try to go once a year as both grandparents want to see the kids. A bit easier for my family who visits us here. I haven't been to Japan since COVID as foreigners where not allowed in for a while (I skipped this year due to work but my family went). Kids are well travelled already 😉.

Thanks Jeremy. It has been a little gem. I like the simplicity of getting it in/out and get going as soon as it has cooled down.

Still closer than my family in Greece and my wife's in Japan. But I know what you mean. I found astrosurface a lot better on pulling details even under so and so seeing. If you remember in our chat, I said Registax was better for my mono filters but the last post I made on Jupiter with the filters, I used astrosurface and pushed the wavelets a bit harder as I opted for higher exposure 75ms than 20ms (UV and CH4) and less gain (therefore less noise) based on our conversation on what Christopher Go does; I also ignored the histogram for these two filters (over 100%) but my IR is at 95%. I think 90-95 gives a lot less noise and does not need to push too hard to get details. Even with average seeing, colour Jupiter seems to far better at higher exposure but I want to do it more properly (also I tried to be close to 80-90%). If only we had constant good skies for these tests. It makes sense now. I saw Christopher is down to 30s now with the newer noiseless cameras but he does not seem to suffer with too much bad seeing either despite being in Phillipines.

Thank you. Yes it is a Dob. Part of the fun pushing it to its limits.

Congratulations on the new arrival! Handsome little man (I am still referring to the baby) 🤣 and his brother. I am sure they will keep you busy and less and less imaging time. How was the star camp? Did you manage to have some clear skies at all? Nice images. I see you are making a good use of all the software. How are you finding Astrosurface? Is it growing to you? I have seen others doing these really short captures. I want to try it but the weather is not playing ball. Regarding stacking 1500 frames per capture, the 462mc will give you close to 250-300fps at a tight ROI or more at even tighter; why 'throw' away a big proportion? Or was it that the seeing was really bad to keep more?

Nice animation. It seems your best seeing was right at the beginning when nice details flash through. It might be worth processing that capture.

Thanks Stuart. These filters are little gems and rather surprised to be pulling some features with the 8".

I had fun playing with the filters the other morning and I managed a decent CH4, UV and IR capture. The filters capture cloud structures at different depths in its atmosphere. I quite like the signal on the poles from the methane but also the extra structures inside the GRS from the IR. I think I got my settings quite ok to get me a good signal without too much noise; 75ms exposures without worrying too much on the fps. I would love to repeat under good seeing. A false colour too with UV (blue)/IR (green)/CH4 (red); Io was deleted as there was no UV signal. My usual 8" setup.

Without barlow you are close to the X5 pixel size. With the barlow you are really oversampled without benefit. You have nicer details on the native one, assuming it is f15?

Thanks Reggie. Trying to make the best of the awful conditions.

Thanks. A bit further north from you, Brinkworth.

Thanks. I know what you mean about my bad seeing, but we had one excellent night this apparition and it is frustrating that we get soft images now. It could have been worst but also much better.

Fantastic images and sequence of the event.

It seems you have probably got a neighbours light across the bushes; see stretched image. In addition, ISS passes are currently in the morning.

Despite the lack of overhead jetstream the seeing was very wobbly this morning. At least it was with the GRS to make it worthwhile. Io is on the side too. My usual 8" setup.