Jupiter 14th September

[michaelmorris]

Here's my best effort from the evening of 14th September. Seeing was poor to Rubbish. Best 400 from 1700 frames. Processed in registax 5, sharpened with wavelets and Focusmagic plug-in for Photoshop.

[geoff_k]

If the seeing was as you say (and I sympathise) that is a pretty good result.

Geoff

[brianb]

If the seeing was as you say (and I sympathise) that is a pretty good result.

Yeah, not bad at all ... did you try reducing the gamma a bit on the Registax wavelets page, this will make the surface a bit less bland. (My image of the Europa transit on Sep 13th has gamma = 0.80)

[michaelmorris]

Yeah, not bad at all ... did you try reducing the gamma a bit on the Registax wavelets page, this will make the surface a bit less bland. (My image of the Europa transit on Sep 13th has gamma = 0.80)

Brian - Thanks. I'll give that a try. Please note that your lovely image is taken with a DMK on an 11" scope. My effort is a coluor Toucam on old 8" optics.

[brianb]

Please note that your lovely image is taken with a DMK on an 11" scope. My effort is a coluor Toucam on old 8" optics.

That may affect the resolution of fine details but shouldn't have much impact on colour balance / contrast etc. We can all improve. I've learned a lot over the last few weeks, trying to image Jupiter (and Mars) in less than perfect conditions.

[michaelmorris]

Here it is with the colour saturation raised a bit and a little bit of negative curve. I think it's slightly better. As brianb pointed out, perhaps the first effort was a little washed out.

What do you think?

[brianb]