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Equipment

Celestron C8 with equatorial wedge mount

Vesta Pro Scan 690K webcam

Homemade webcam adapters for a Vesta Pro Scan

Celestron 2X barlow

Computer and Software

AMD Athlon 1700+ overclocked to 2.2Ghz/512 Mbytes/40Gbyte hdd for processing

233 Mhz Pentium laptop for outside work

Registax

K3CCDTOOLS

AviRaw

PaintShop Pro 7

Jupiter Image Gallery

April 27th, 2004

Prime Focus and Eyepiece Projection 400 frames for each image processed in K3CCDtools, Registax2, and Paint Shop Pro 7
April 21st  2004 - Jupiter has been tough to get for the past couple of weeks.  EP projection ~200 frames captured (between the clouds) processed in K3CCDtools and Wavelets applied in Registax2
April 5th  Io and Europa.

 

             

       6-Apr-2004 3:27UT                                      6-Apr-2004 4:05UT                                        6-Apr-2004 4:32UT
March 12, 2004

Raw mode AVI processed using 3 different techniques.  The moon is Io. Click here for description:
March 12, 2004

Various processing attempts on two normal mode AVI's.  My RAW mode avis for this session haven't produced good results (yet)

Image reduced to 75% of original

 AVI processed on K3CCDtools, output fits files, stacked with no wavelet processing in Registax2
March 12, 2004 Same AVI processed with various techniques.  Images reduced to 75% of original Handselected frames in Registax2. Color balance and unsharp mask in PSP7.

Fits files from K3CCDtoo;s, processed in Registax2 with wavelets and PSP7 color tweaking

Pre-processed AVI in Virtualdub using levels and general convolution.  Stacked and wavelet processing in Registax2. Color balance in PSP7

Pre-processed AVI in Virtualdub using levels and general convolution.  Stacked and wavelet processing in Registax2.  Unsharp mask in PSP7 + color balance.

 

 
Feb-08-2004 (seeing 5/10)

RAW mode gain=80, bright=20, gamma=0 Processed with AviRaw, Registax, and Painshop Pro 7 image reduced 50%

(need to clean ccd, lots of dust which caused streaks)

Jupiter was really big with the 17mm Plossl for Eyepiece projection.  The image is not cropped.  Just reduced in size by 50%.
Feb-08-2004 (seeing 5/10)

EP with 17mm Plossl, hand selected 270 out of 500 frames.  gain=80, bright=20, gamma=20, sharpening off AviRaw, Registax, Paint Shop Pro 7, image reduced 50%
I wanted to try and get some more color out of the image below, so I ran the AVI thru Virtualdub and applied a levels filter.  Then I adjusted the color balance in Paint Shop Pro (highlights) to get the "better" color image to the right. Before After
December 28th, 2003

Eyepiece Projection ~f30

1000 frame video clips processed with Registax and PaintShop Pro
December 28th, 2003

Prime focus using tele-extender tube.

60 frame over-exposed video for moons

500 frame video for Jupiter
December 27th, 2003

Approximately 500 frames captured at 5fps.  Gain 25% (too low, needs to be about 50%), brightness 50%, gamma 0%
December 27th, 2003 

Moons captured at 100% gain, 50% brightness.

Overlayed one of the above images on top of over-expose jupiter in Paint Shop Pro 7
First light image of Jupiter with Me2Cam
First Light image of jupiter with Vesta Pro Scan
This image was taken afer collimating my C8.  20 second AVI was processed with Registax.