I don't do planetary, but...Jupiter and Europa with camcorder + EP

[Tim]

Took these sequences the other night with my camcorder screwed onto a Hyperion zoom EP.

Europa approaching as its shadow touches the right hand side, with GRS.

The nice thing about this method is that the camcorder screen displays a better image of Jupiter than you get at the EP, and for showing the planet to friends and neighbours etc it makes things very easy.

C11, Hyperion Mkiii Zoom EP, Canon Legria camcorder.

Would probably help if I knew how to process the avi, but its a start

Cheers

Tim

[Uranium235]

Brave, brave man

Must admit, ive been a bit chicken when it comes to processing AVIs. Its a completely differerent kettle of fish to deepsky stuff.

[Clayton]

Maybe you should start doing planetary Tim

[Radar2312]

Maybe you should start doing planetary Tim

Agreed! I'd like to see how that turned out after a run thru registax.

nice

Regards

Rick

[astrosphinx]

I think you'd be really surprised at the results given the single shot frame you've shown here.

Install Registax 5 (or 6) and follow some of the tutorials, there are a few on youtube and see how you get on - when you get the final result (post wavelets) you won't be disappointed.

[Clayton]

Or AS!2

[jgs001]

Nice result Tim... get the AVI stacked and see what it's like... Either of the above or AVIStack also works... I tend to use Regi for planetary (I really need to try AS!2 though).

[Tim]

Whoops, just to clarify, this IS a stacked image, although to be fair to the original movie some of the frames are nearly as sharp as this.

I ran it through Avistack, I just dont know how to mess with the dials properly

Cheers anyway!

[Atlas]

If you send me the .Avi I can take a crack at it.

[Tim]

I could upload it somewhere perhaps? Quite a big file.

It is in high res AVCHD (*.MTS) format. I converted it to an avi, hopefully losslessly via Prism (actually it got larger), cut a section out with Virtualdub, and then put that into Avistack. I'm sure that if only the sharper frames were selected then the end result might be sharper, but it seems to be the devils own work to get the settings right :s

How long time wise is acceptable before planetary rotation causes blurring? I could cut a section of the avi of the appropriate length and upload that?

Thanks for the offer

Tim

[Atlas]

Blurring from rotation usually occurs after 4 minutes or so. I usually keep my vids around 3 minutes.

[LukeSkywatcher]

You dont do planets?

Seems to me you do a good job of planets.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very good job indeed. Better than my first attempts

[Tim]

Better than my first attempts too

[Pete Presland]

not too bad at all, much better my first attempt!