Jupiter rotation 10th September

[Mark2022]

 

Just trying out a video/animation from captures taken 10th September. Would be excellent if I Could nail this softness issue. 🙂

[John_D]

That looks great. Could you give some more information about how many frames in the animation and much video you took for each one? Thanks.

[michael8554]

Hi Mark.

What equipment ?

My experience of Planetary yielded soft images, due to atmospherics, that responded well to advanced sharpening processing.

Michael

[Mark2022]

3 hours ago, John_D said:

That looks great. Could you give some more information about how many frames in the animation and much video you took for each one? Thanks.

Thanks John. It's the best I can get so far. I've posted previously as to how I can achieve better detail and clarity but, so far, it eludes me.

There are only 7 frames in the animation composed of 7, 3 or 4 minute videos (I'm planning to keep them to 2 mins or thereabouts next time), which were then put through Pipp, Autostakkert and Registax. I decided to try just 150 stacked frames from each video which had about 6 or 7000 because I wanted to see if choosing just that  low a number would give me any more sharpness which, I think, it did but just a little. I need to nail focus somehow but I'm using a Meade LX10 8 inch, forked with just the standard LX10 focuser and a SVBony helical focuser, all manually adjusted.

I then just stuck it into iMovie and had each frame set to 0.1 seconds and repeated back and forth. Hope that helps.

[Mark2022]

2 hours ago, michael8554 said:

Hi Mark.

What equipment ?

My experience of Planetary yielded soft images, due to atmospherics, that responded well to advanced sharpening processing.

Michael

Hi Michael, see above response to John. I meant to add I use an SVBony 305c I got used for £35 so I'm not complaining on that score. I had trouble getting the planet on the sensor (and it's still a little bit of a pfaff) but when I aligned my finder more precisely and got the planet in the central  crosshairs, it pretty much solved that.

When you say 'advanced sharpening' what do you mean? I think I've now come to recognise that achieving unsoft images really takes nailing focus and the processing just adds that little extra sharpening. If you start off with soft images (which I have), they'll always be soft and overprocessing looks garish.

[John_D]

21 hours ago, Mark2022 said:

Thanks John. It's the best I can get so far. I've posted previously as to how I can achieve better detail and clarity but, so far, it eludes me.

There are only 7 frames in the animation composed of 7, 3 or 4 minute videos (I'm planning to keep them to 2 mins or thereabouts next time), which were then put through Pipp, Autostakkert and Registax. I decided to try just 150 stacked frames from each video which had about 6 or 7000 because I wanted to see if choosing just that  low a number would give me any more sharpness which, I think, it did but just a little. I need to nail focus somehow but I'm using a Meade LX10 8 inch, forked with just the standard LX10 focuser and a SVBony helical focuser, all manually adjusted.

I then just stuck it into iMovie and had each frame set to 0.1 seconds and repeated back and forth. Hope that helps.

That's very useful thanks. In my experience of photography ( astro or otherwise ) more detail and clarity usually mean more $$$$

I think the animation really adds something, it makes it more "real" somehow.

[Mark2022]

58 minutes ago, John_D said:

I think the animation really adds something, it makes it more "real" somehow.

Yes, I agree. Since we're getting longer nights now and Jupiter rising earlier and earlier, I'm hoping to get a good enough, clear,steady night to capture enough for at least a hemisphere worth of rotation.