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Had a clear sky Thursday night so I set up the scope, took care, and got a perfect calibration on the AVX. The go-to was bang on with everything central to a 25mm on the SE6 turned around to boot up the laptop and was greeted by a very wet keyboard, checked the grass around me and a 12:30 there was a heavy dew.
Went on to easily locate Jupiter with the ASI224 (a novel experience for me ) and took 10k avi, moved on to Saturn did a 3K.
Played around a fair amount with processing, yesterday. Today I'm going to PIPP them before AS3 to see if I can improve them.
The good news, nice Cassini division on Saturn, bad news atmosphere degraded the imaging. Both planets are low in the sky for me at 53 degrees.
-Michael Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster 15x70, Bushnell 10x50 Eyepieces: Various, GSO Superview, 9mm Plossl, Celestron 25mm Plossl Camera: ZWO ASI 120 Naked Eye: Two Eyeballs Latitude: 48.7229° N
Scope: Apertura AD10 with Nexus II with 8192/716000 Step Encoders EPs: ES 82* 18mm, 11mm, 6.7mm; GSO 30mm Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binoculars List Counts:Messier: 75;Herschel 400: 30;Caldwell: 12; AL Carbon Star List: 16 Brett's Carbon Star Hunt
Very nice. How many frames are you using per each vid, as a percentage? For example, are you processing just the top 10% of frames, or something larger than that?
Cheers,
JT
∞ Primary Scopes: #1: Celestron CPC1100 #2: 8" f/7.5 Dob #3: CR150HD f/8 6" frac ∞ AP Scopes: #1: TPO 6" f/9 RC #2: ES 102 f/7 APO #3: ES 80mm f/6 APO ∞ G&G Scopes: #1: Meade 102mm f/7.8 #2: Bresser 102mm f/4.5 ∞ Guide Scopes: 70 & 80mm fracs -- The El Cheapo Bros. ∞ Mounts: iOptron CEM70AG, SW EQ6R, Celestron AVX, SLT & GT (Alt-Az), Meade DS2000 ∞ Cameras: #1: ZWO ASI294MC Pro #2: 662MC #3: 120MC, Canon T3i, Orion SSAG, WYZE Cam3 ∞ Binos: 10X50,11X70,15X70, 25X100 ∞ AP Gear: ZWO EAF and mini EFW and the Optolong L-eXteme filter ∞ EPs: ES 2": 21mm 100° & 30mm 82° Pentax XW: 7, 10, 14, & 20mm 70°
Searching the skies since 1966. "I never met a scope I didn't want to keep."
Scopes: Explore Scientific ED102 APO, Sharpstar 61 EDPH II APO, Samyang 135 F2 (still on the Nikon).
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro with Rowan Belt Mod
Stuff: ASI EAF Focus Motor (x2), ZWO OAG, ZWO 30 mm Guide Scope, ASI 220mm min, ASI 120mm mini, Stellarview 0.8 FR/FF, Sharpstar 0.8 FR/FF, Mele Overloock 3C.
Camera/Filters/Software: ASI 533 mc pro, ASI 120mm mini, ASI 220mm mini , IDAS LPS D-1, Optolong L-Enhance, ZWO UV/IR Cut, N.I.N.A., Green Swamp Server, PHD2, Adobe Photoshop CC, Pixinsight.
Dog and best bud: Jack
Sky: Bortle 6-7
My Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/users/Juno16/
Very nice. How many frames are you using per each vid, as a percentage? For example, are you processing just the top 10% of frames, or something larger than that?
Cheers,
JT
Hi JT, well I played around with this, on the Jupiter one 10,400 frames at 10%, 20%, 30% and 50%. I settled on 30%. I think this will vary on the quality of the skies. Saturn was 50% of 2,409 frames. PIPP does improve things, as it reduces the number of frames and centres the image. I had a struggle to understand it, as by default it debayers the image. You need to turn all that off and let Autostakkert do this, otherwise the .tif output is monochrome. That took a bit of head-scratching as the .ser out of PIPP is RGB.
There's more in there to pull out, but this is where the work comes into planetary, fun when it works a PITA getting it there
PIPP version looks better, but not posting as I was guilty of over-processing