Jupiter 31 October 2022

[BGazing]

Well, this took some time to process. I shook of covid just enough to drag myself to the balcony and capture these - another night of high pressure good seeing. You know it is good when you see details on a relatively still FC screen.

C8, ASI 678, ADC. Single images are out of stacks of 3 mins where I stacked between 65 and 75 percent of frames. Video is about 85 minutes of Jupiter rotation.

 

Edited November 12, 2022 by BGazing

[Ags]

Gorgeous!

[yelsac]

Awesome pics especially the last one, love the detail. 

Animation is great to 👍

[vlaiv]

Exceptional images!

[CraigT82]

Very nice images! Yeah could try to deal with the ghosted limb by using an elliptical selection tool (just inside the disk), invert and feather it and then apply a slight Gaussian blur. That’s what i do when I get that artefact and it works well. 

[BGazing]

3 minutes ago, CraigT82 said:

Very nice images! Yeah could try to deal with the ghosted limb by using an elliptical selection tool (just inside the disk), invert and feather it and then apply a slight Gaussian blur. That’s what i do when I get that artefact and it works well. 

Thank you for the comment and the suggestion. Honestly, PS was for me quite an obstacle, I might devote more time to it eventually. I only started imaging planets in August. There's some tutorial about removing rind floating around, will try to get a hang of it. Frankly, here it is bearable, it is much more pronounced on Mars.

[vlaiv]

Just now, BGazing said:

Thank you for the comment and the suggestion. Honestly, PS was for me quite an obstacle, I might devote more time to it eventually. I only started imaging planets in August. There's some tutorial about removing rind floating around, will try to get a hang of it. Frankly, here it is bearable, it is much more pronounced on Mars.

Processing is a pretty big part of a good image, but so is the data.

You have really good data here, even more can be teased out in terms of detail if color management is a bit tweaked:

(this is last image tweaked for correct gamma setting for sRGB, contrast / brightness and things like that).

 

[BGazing]

19 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Processing is a pretty big part of a good image, but so is the data.

You have really good data here, even more can be teased out in terms of detail if color management is a bit tweaked:

(this is last image tweaked for correct gamma setting for sRGB, contrast / brightness and things like that).

 

Thank you, what did you actually do?

[Kon]

Nice images and excellent animation.

[vlaiv]

55 minutes ago, BGazing said:

Thank you, what did you actually do?

Just a few tweaks in IrfanView (of all image processing software).

I changed gamma to 2.2 (that is same as slightly bumping the curves - most people don't do it but it should be done with raw/linear data), reduced brightness and increased contrast (or rather set black and white point appropriately). Increased saturation to get nice brown / orange for GRS and did one round of stock sharpening in that software.

 

[geoflewis]

Lovely images and excellent animation.