Jupiter mak127

[Kevstew]

This is my first and only so far picture using a new ed barlow with my skymax 127. taken at about 0300 sept22nd spent most of the night waiting for the clouds to clear only got one avi of 3mins. 370 out of 2600 frames stacked in registax6.

[BargeGazer]

Nice. What imager?

David

[Space Cowboy]

Lovely image bravo Sir!

[Kevstew]

Thanks i used a Opticstar px35c only had it about a month still trying to work it out, it can do some strange things I've also got a spc880 which I think is the same chip and is easier to use but I get better results with the px35c

[Kevstew]

Space cowboy thanks, I was a little worried to post my image after looking at what you and some of the others can produce, but I think my wife is sick of looking at pictures so decided to share on here

[JamesF]

That looks pretty good to me. Well done. What camera were you using?

James

[Kevstew]

Opticstar px35c

[SeedyF]

That's a lovely image Kev - well done.

And never allow yourself to be put off by the superstars, there's room for everybody and a wide range of standards on here

Plus the advice they dish out is second to none!

[eli71]

I think is a great picture!!! Last night I try also with a mak127 and this is what I get.

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/162870-small-jupiter/

So congratulations!

[Atlas]

Awesome results for the little Mak!! Well done.

[Kevstew]

Thanks for all the comments

[stellawolf]

Very nice imagewell done

[bigal1]

Excellent first image one to be proud of that , try a bit more mag when the conditions allow i find the 127 mak can handle a 2x barlow + a small extension tube very well

[chesty]

fantastic image those macs are amazing wish i still had mine now

[beamish]

that's a cracker- well done

[fredster]

That's a superb image from a 127 Mak. And looks like the Opticstar camera does the job nicely.

[starnut]

I would be very pleased with that well done

[Cloudwatcher]

Very fine capture indeed............got to love the 127 Mak,great on planets and the Moon not to mention double/multiple stars.

If you enlarge and lighten the image a bit the detail you have captured really begins to show what it can do.

[Kevstew]

Bigal 1 thanks next time I get a chance I will try a bit more mag. Cloudwatcher you have pulled detail out I didn't know was there.

[bm1980]

Top image, 127 maks are one of the best little scopes for imaging the planets.

Regards

Ben

[breezy]

cracking shot mate,

cant wait to get the time to try a few with mine but work and keep getting in the way ...

[Alan_B]

Did you manage to load all those frames into Registax or did you trim the AVI first with Virtualdub or something similar ?

The reason I ask is that I have the same camera and whenever I try to load a large file Registax crashes

Nice image by the way

[Kevstew]

Alan b this sounds like a problem I've been having I will try and explain. First to answer your question I didn't do anything to the avi just loaded into registax 6. I use a netbook running windows xp when I go into sharpcap I find the camera is listed more than once, px35 and px35 USB 2 if I pick px35 USB 2 the camera works fine, a 3 min capture will give you about 2500 frames if you select high spec frame rate you will get about 5000 frames the file size is also twice as big about 5gb. If I select px35 from the camera list I get a different set of options the camera runs about 30 fps as default I get the same 5gb size avi file but 28000 frames which crashes registax. Sometimes you do get 5500 frames but I can't work out why it works sometimes and not others. Registax 5 sometimes loads up the 28000 frames and it looks like every frame has been copied 5 times so the first 5 frames are the same and so on. I don't know if this helps or makes any sense to you.