First Jupiter of 2010!

[Space Cowboy]

Set my alarm for 3am and took my first shots of Jupiter with the Philips webcam. Taken at 15fps with Craterlet. Quite pleased with detail as only just over 20 degrees alt.

[beamish]

Nice one SC !

I think I ought to take a leaf out and set my alarm too

[Briggsy]

That's dedication Nice pic!

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers Karlo!

I've just realised that all 9 AVIs i took with Astrocapture are corrupt! Tried fixing with virtualdub but no luck...gutted as I'd got 2 moons on some of them. I updated astrocapture with the latest version 1.7-2-10 and this has happened. Seems to be a conflict with the RGB24 format. Thankfully I'd done 2 avis with craterlet else I would have been mortified!

[Glasspusher]

Very nice image well done.

John

[AztecastroMcJ]

Nice detail there Stuart

worth getting up for i imagine

shame about your corrupt avi's

looks slightly green on my monitor

excellent detail tho

James

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers John! Thank James, yes I think you are correct about the green. I'd only done a quick stack and wavelet process. Will give RGB a tweak.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Cheers Karlo!

I've just realised that all 9 AVIs i took with Astrocapture are corrupt! Tried fixing with virtualdub but no luck...gutted as I'd got 2 moons on some of them. I updated astrocapture with the latest version 1.7-2-10 and this has happened. Seems to be a conflict with the RGB24 format. Thankfully I'd done 2 avis with craterlet else I would have been mortified!

I don't know whether the RGB format is corrupt, but I also had problems with my first wxAstrocapture stacks (in RGB). I since switched to YUV and have no problems

[Space Cowboy]

I'm gonna re-install the prevous Astrocapture version. Don't want that happening again....a real sickener lol

[Ant]

What did you do to increase the image scale that big - barlow or EP projection...?

Looks like the GRS just showing itself, some nice detail in there - but boy doesn't it look weird without the second band?

Ant

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Ant!

I used 2x barlow . Yes I was chuffed to get the red spot showing itself around the corner. Was keen to get an image before the band reappears lol

[Ant]

2 x barlow - that still an impressive size... I have a skymax 127 and I might consider getting up early tomorrow and having a go.

For the SPC900, you really need to have the Frame rate at 10FPS - or the software compresses automatically during capture.

Ant

[Space Cowboy]

I did take some at 10 fps with Astrocapture but the files were corrupt...very upsetting.....sniff...

[Space Cowboy]

The Skymax 127 is a little Gem! Set your alarm Ant, go for it!! ;-)

[Ant]

You want to know what I learnt very early on...?

Exactly the same happened to me! So everytime I capture an AVI (the last time was venus about 18 months ago), I make the first capture of the evening a short one (few hundred frames).

I then stack and align it in Registax and make sure it works OK.

Then I go on and take lots... Nothing worse than finishing a session and finding that all the data is corrupt!

Ant

[russ]

You want to know what I learnt very early on...?

Exactly the same happened to me! So everytime I capture an AVI (the last time was venus about 18 months ago), I make the first capture of the evening a short one (few hundred frames).

I then stack and align it in Registax and make sure it works OK.

Then I go on and take lots... Nothing worse than finishing a session and finding that all the data is corrupt!

Ant

That's exactly what i used to do too.

Nice first image of the 2010 season.

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers Russ!

Ant I've done what you said before but was not wanting to waste any time as the daylight increased but I shall certainly be checking the files are ok next time!

[Clayton]

Nice one Stuart!

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers Clayton!