Jupiter - GRS this evening

[mightymonoped]

Early evening capture using ED80, Tal 3x barlow.

Each image is approx 600/1200 frames.

I do have some more to process, will add the moons to the best later.

Tony

[mightymonoped]

Another one

Tony

[Clayton]

Brilliant:headbang: Amazing stuff from an 80:hello2:

[Kokatha man]

Very nice, especially, as Clayton says, from an ED80....!

[rawhead]

GRS showing well. Some good detail from the small frac

Cheers

Jon

[prokyon]

Wow, very nice! Great effort with an ED 80. Which cam did you use?

werner

[mightymonoped]

Wow, very nice! Great effort with an ED 80. Which cam did you use?

werner

Thanks!

I used a Toucam 840k capturing at 10fps (I have reflashed the camera to use optimised colour non raw mode).

Tony

[mightymonoped]

Finally got round to adding the moons.

Tony

[Clayton]

Nice!

[blinky]

WOW Never knew you could get that from an ED80!

[gary1968]

Very, very nice, and from an 80? Well done. Makes me think of trying this with my 80 and neximage instead of the sct, now all I need is a clear night..... :-)

Gary

[swashy]

Fantastic stuff Tony!

[swashy]

Thanks!

I used a Toucam 840k capturing at 10fps (I have reflashed the camera to use optimised colour non raw mode).

Tony

How did you do this Tony? and what capture prog are you using?

[mightymonoped]

Ade,

I used a programme called WcRmac

WcRmac - Description

(read the disclaimer though)

The basic info for this session on Jupiter with a small scope is:

Focus, focus and then re-focus (this is probably 3/4 of the session)

Camera - Toucam 840K - reflashed using WcRmac to use Colour Optimised Non Raw Mode.

QCFocus capture - 10 fps at 33 (saturation at 50% for planet, 0% for moons) - each avi was 1 minute.

Alignment/Stacking/Wavelets - I used 'double alignment', choosing what I thought was the best frame for the first pass, then using the frame at the top of the Framelist for a second pass alignment.

I am also ran a reference frame of around 100 frames, applying a minimal (4.0) value on wavelet 3 and an rgb alignment before then running the main stacking. This always seems to work quite well for me.

I used 1.5x resampling (Lanczos) during stacking, then shrunk it back down to actual after wavelets before saving.

This seemed to work quite well.

Processing - used Michael Vinthers Image Analyzer - Adaptive Noise Reduction and Motion Blur deconvolution - this is one of the best processing tools I have found.

CS2 - simple Curves and levels adjustment, then saving to jpeg format for web publishing.

..and that's about it!

Tony

[rawhead]

Ade,

I used a programme called WcRmac

WcRmac - Description

(read the disclaimer though)

The basic info for this session on Jupiter with a small scope is:

Focus, focus and then re-focus (this is probably 3/4 of the session)

Camera - Toucam 840K - reflashed using WcRmac to use Colour Optimised Non Raw Mode.

QCFocus capture - 10 fps at 33 (saturation at 50% for planet, 0% for moons) - each avi was 1 minute.

Alignment/Stacking/Wavelets - I used 'double alignment', choosing what I thought was the best frame for the first pass, then using the frame at the top of the Framelist for a second pass alignment.

I am also ran a reference frame of around 100 frames, applying a minimal (4.0) value on wavelet 3 and an rgb alignment before then running the main stacking. This always seems to work quite well for me.

I used 1.5x resampling (Lanczos) during stacking, then shrunk it back down to actual after wavelets before saving.

This seemed to work quite well.

Processing - used Michael Vinthers Image Analyzer - Adaptive Noise Reduction and Motion Blur deconvolution - this is one of the best processing tools I have found.

CS2 - simple Curves and levels adjustment, then saving to jpeg format for web publishing.

..and that's about it!

Tony

Thanks for that Tony

Have downloaded Image Analyzer already

Trying to get my head around the Motion Blur deconvolution

Cheers

Jon

[mightymonoped]

Thanks for that Tony

Have downloaded Image Analyzer already

Trying to get my head around the Motion Blur deconvolution

Cheers

Jon

Jon,

I tend to just do "guess" on both axes and then "do iteration" - if it looks 'over the top', I just leave the image alone.

Next, I move on to the "adaptive noise reduction".

Tony

[rawhead]

Jon,

I tend to just do "guess" on both axes and then "do iteration"

Tony

I then get 'Error - No filter specified'

[mightymonoped]

..what format image are you using (jpg, tiff, bmp etc)?

Tony

[rawhead]

jpg

[Clayton]

I hope you don't mind tony I have been playing with Your Jupiter shot to see if I can get more detail without over cooking:rolleyes: I still have a way to go

[mightymonoped]

I then get 'Error - No filter specified'

Jon,

I've had that myself on one or two occasions. TBH, I have no idea why!

I tend to use Image Analyzer as an additional check rather than an essential one. You might try the filter below Motion Blur (I think it's Circular or Spherical - can't check at the 'mo) as this sometimes gives good results.

Tony

[mightymonoped]

I hope you don't mind tony I have been playing with Your Jupiter shot to see if I can get more detail without over cooking:rolleyes: I still have a way to go

No probs Clayton

I did get more a little detail than the image I posted but I tend to compromise for a less noisy image with the limited detail a small scope can give. I think there's a fine line between detail and artefact that makes me nervous

Tony

[AztecastroMcJ]

NICE1

James

[rawhead]

Jon,

I've had that myself on one or two occasions. TBH, I have no idea why!

I tend to use Image Analyzer as an additional check rather than an essential one. You might try the filter below Motion Blur (I think it's Circular or Spherical - can't check at the 'mo) as this sometimes gives good results.

Tony

OK. I'll have a play...

Cheers

Jon

[rawhead]

In case anyone's interested.

I've managed to get TIFF files working fine...

And I like the results