CCD vs Film? Lots of time vs no patience? Alright, this is your place to discuss all the astrophotography what's and what's not. You can discuss about techniques, accessories, cameras, whatever....just make sure you also post some nice photos here too!
Here's a little deviation from the usual DSO imaging. The weather last night was plagued with low passing clouds and thin haze. It's been a really long time since the trusty 'ol Toucam web-camera was used, and Jupiter was suitably placed for imaging from the balcony (though imaging it is not possible at zenith from there). It is a series of images of the Jovian planet taken from 10PM plus to slightly before 12. About 600 frames were stacked for each Jupiter view, and earliest frames starts from the top left image and ends at the bottom right image. There was no barlow, so the image scale is kinda small (1600mm e.f.l. with 5" refractor), but it did keep me intrigued! Seeing was above average, but the thin haze did cause some colour skews for some of them. All processing done on IRIS, Registax, Photoshop, and ImageReady was used to prepare the animation splices.
The second image is an animation for some of the views.
Wow... more animations! Soon, we can have a Singastro collaboration to capture a whole night's animation.
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Hi Remus
Nice animation. Looks like people here are starting to resort to new mediums besides the usual fixed imaging which would make sense. These webcams typically capture video but people "imagerise" it by stacking them...heh heh
btw, one or more of the 2 dots around the GRS shadows of the moon?
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could be speckle noise, no transits at that time...
jupiter still look smallish here, wasn't an intention to image the planet that night, but just took advantage of alternatives to DSO imaging due to poor transparency...
