ASTRO: Jupiter (series of pics)

For imaging so low on the horizon, we had some rather steady and good seeing
last night. I decided to try pretty much every option for planetary imaging
that I have with my scope and toucam 740k (a new firewire DBK should be here
Tuesday). The 2 set image was shot with a 2x barlow and 10fps. Pretty much
the standard setting. The 3 set image was shot with a 3x barlow and 5fps.
That would be a setting normally used for excellent seeing. The 5 set image
was shot with a 2x barlow at 5fps. If I could of shot more frames with the
3x5fps, I'm sure it would of yielded the best result. But, given I only
have about 2 minutes before the rotation of Jupiter comes into play, I had a
bare minimum number of frames to work with. The DBK will resolve that
problem hopefully. It was quite a challenge trying to get each set to match
up in color, contrast, noise, etc.

J.Warren wrote:

For imaging so low on the horizon, we had some rather steady and good seeing
last night. I decided to try pretty much every option for planetary imaging
that I have with my scope and toucam 740k (a new firewire DBK should be here
Tuesday). The 2 set image was shot with a 2x barlow and 10fps. Pretty much
the standard setting. The 3 set image was shot with a 3x barlow and 5fps.
That would be a setting normally used for excellent seeing. The 5 set image
was shot with a 2x barlow at 5fps. If I could of shot more frames with the
3x5fps, I'm sure it would of yielded the best result. But, given I only
have about 2 minutes before the rotation of Jupiter comes into play, I had a
bare minimum number of frames to work with. The DBK will resolve that
problem hopefully. It was quite a challenge trying to get each set to match
up in color, contrast, noise, etc.

Well done. It's really in the soup for me at 47N. Your shots show it
better than I can see it visually in a very good 10" F/8 Cave from the
late 50's.

My attempts at matching frames has been a total failure. You did a
great job.

Rick

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Well done, nice pics

Kev

"J.Warren" wrote in message
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For imaging so low on the horizon, we had some rather steady and good
seeing last night. I decided to try pretty much every option for
planetary imaging that I have with my scope and toucam 740k (a new
firewire DBK should be here Tuesday). The 2 set image was shot with a 2x
barlow and 10fps. Pretty much the standard setting. The 3 set image was
shot with a 3x barlow and 5fps. That would be a setting normally used for
excellent seeing. The 5 set image was shot with a 2x barlow at 5fps. If
I could of shot more frames with the 3x5fps, I'm sure it would of yielded
the best result. But, given I only have about 2 minutes before the
rotation of Jupiter comes into play, I had a bare minimum number of frames
to work with. The DBK will resolve that problem hopefully. It was quite
a challenge trying to get each set to match up in color, contrast, noise,
etc.

Pretty impressive for It being down so low right now.

Joe


"J.Warren" wrote in message
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For imaging so low on the horizon, we had some rather steady and good
seeing
last night. I decided to try pretty much every option for planetary
imaging
that I have with my scope and toucam 740k (a new firewire DBK should be
here
Tuesday). The 2 set image was shot with a 2x barlow and 10fps. Pretty
much
the standard setting. The 3 set image was shot with a 3x barlow and 5fps.
That would be a setting normally used for excellent seeing. The 5 set
image
was shot with a 2x barlow at 5fps. If I could of shot more frames with
the
3x5fps, I'm sure it would of yielded the best result. But, given I only
have about 2 minutes before the rotation of Jupiter comes into play, I had
a
bare minimum number of frames to work with. The DBK will resolve that
problem hopefully. It was quite a challenge trying to get each set to
match
up in color, contrast, noise, etc.

Thanks guys. Yea, if it was about 20 degrees higher, the quality of those
images would of improved greatly. Below is the best capture from that
night, and a gif I made showing the GRS rotating into darkness.

Whoops, I posted the wrong gif. Here are the same frames, but better
processing.