Jupiter - 10th September

[hayju01]

Managed a couple of hours out last night, moon, wind and storm front approaching didnt provdie the perfect conditions but at least it was clear !!!

It's an improvement on last attempt - HERE but I have to be honest I am disappointed.

jupiter0010_castr.tif

Details are

C925, DFK21, x2.5, IC and RS6, only 30fps (as netbook was baulking at 60.)

[Space Cowboy]

Good to see you getting a shot with the DFK Justin! Looks pretty good, maybe seeing was too poor for more detail? Have you tried using 1/61 shutter speed to get 60fps? What altitude was this?

[hayju01]

Thanks Stuart, the DFK definately shows potential. Yes, I used 1/61 but my Dell Mini 9 just isnt able write the data to the internal SSD quick enough this is depicted by on screen 'stutter' as soon as I press record and the resulting AVI has what I can only describe as freeze frame. So looking to upgrade to something with a 'proper' HDD in it.

Jupiter was at aroudn 34degs so considerably higher than on some of my previous attempts.

[Space Cowboy]

Might be worth trying the ROI (region of interest) setting or even Firecapture software. I know Firecapture can produce faster frame rates though your hardware issue may over-ride this.

34 degrees is still pretty low compared to when Jupiter is at its max of 50 degrees. I reckon you will see a big difference then.

[hayju01]

Thanks Stuart, I'll give ROI a go next time, hopefully my discussions with the misses will resolve my hardware issue especially as Dell are doing 9 months interest free :-)

I think my processing skills may be lacking too, I know what to do but dont know why I'm doing it kinda hit and miss. So never really know if its seeing or processing...but thats the fun I guess

[26Left]

Doesn't look to bad to me Justin, although I agree a little sharper detail would be nice. 34 degrees alt makes it about 1am? It's surprising what a difference a higher altitude makes. My last attempt was about a week ago at 3am and the alt was 45 degrees. Wasn't possible last night though, because the clouds rolled in.

One technique I found useful was to use Ninix to pre-sort the images before loading them in Registax. Last time, I got rid of the worst 25% with Ninox and Registax seemed to have an easier job aligning and grading the frames. The result was a noticeably sharper image.

Cheers,

Tom.

[hayju01]

Yes Tom, 00:40 to be exact.

Will check out Ninox and see what happen when I run it through that.

Thanks,

Justin