In the end, it’s all about atmospherics.

[Greenman]

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.

Still, the fun continues

Ju by Tony Boutle, on Flickr

S by Tony Boutle, on Flickr

[helicon]

Thanks for sharing the photos Tony - nice.

[KingNothing13]

Nice pics Tony, thanks!

[JayTee]

Hi Tony,

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

[maceemiller]

Great pictures! Really good

[Juno16]

Very nice images Tony!

It’s really nice to see planetary images. Thanks?

[Greenman]

Thanks for sharing the photos Tony - nice.

Cheers helicon, I did wonder about posting them, as the video looked much more detailed than last time, so I was a bit underwhelmed.

[Greenman]

Hi Tony,

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