Jupiter 18/11/12

[bus_ter]

Early hours of the 18th. Spent hours trying to perfect the collimation first, in the end I think it was worse than when I started!

[fredster]

Still come out well with nice colour and not over processed.

[cgarry]

That looks like a great effort to me! Do you use your webcam for collimation? I find that far easier than looking through an EP.

Cheers,

Chris

[sologuitarist61]

Great image and well done for catching the moon being eclipsed.

[Space Cowboy]

Very good image!

Be careful with those onion rings that usually means gain was too low or gamma too high or even too fast a frame rate causing video compression?

[JamesF]

The seeing here was rubbish that night and I couldn't get anything I considered worth keeping so I think you've done well there.

James

[bus_ter]

Very good image!

Be careful with those onion rings that usually means gain was too low or gamma too high or even too fast a frame rate causing video compression?

[Philips SPC 900NC PC Camera]

Frame Divisor=1

Resolution=640x480

Frame Rate (fps)=10.00

Colour Space / Compression=YUY2

Exposure=-6

Brightness=51

Contrast=52

Saturation=5

Gamma=0

ColorEnable=255

BacklightCompensation=0

Gain=45

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Less exposure and more gain to remove the rings?

I read somewhere that brightness doesn't affect the recorded image?

[bus_ter]

That looks like a great effort to me! Do you use your webcam for collimation? I find that far easier than looking through an EP.

Yes I use the webcam for collimation, but I'm having all sorts of problems getting the collimation sorted. So collimation is certainly a work in process for me..