Jupiter May 23th 2007 - 17:16 UT

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Jupiter May 23th 2007 - 17:16 UT

Post by aquillae »

hi guys, I had chance to use my scope again last night :D

and since i live at the company dormitory, i showed Jupiter and some DSOs (omega centauri, lagoon nebula, etc) to my coworkers. For most of them (hmm i think all of them) , it was their first time to views those celestial objects.

i also took some jupiter movies using my webcam. i haven't done any webcam imaging for 3 years :wink: (last one was march 2004), so it was quite a challenge to center Jupiter on the screen with diff. magnifications, refocus, and getting used to the setting again.

here's a quick result (about 600 frames stacked), i didnt bother to select the frames manually since I didnt have enough data and seeing condition was pretty good. I loaded the *.avi file on Registax, stacked the frames, resample 2x and saved the image for further processing in Photoshop.

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spec: TOA130 (5.1" refractor) @ f/38.5 (Powermate 5x), Toucam Pro, Registax4, and Photoshop.

can't wait for next session to play around with diff. settings :)
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Post by VinSnr »

i didn't know there is another guy who has the TOA 130.

I wonder what other scopes you guys have.

Who has the TEC 160 here or AP 160? Come on..own up.
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Post by Clifford60 »

Nice shot, a lot of details.
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Post by weixing »

Hi,
Good work... Nice and natural looking Jupiter!! :D

Have a nice day.
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Post by VinSnr »

I am more interested in the TOA than the image! can take image of your TOA?
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Post by rcj »

Hi Jeff,

Very good image! what mount do you have on with the TOA?
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Post by VinSnr »

rcj wrote:Hi Jeff,

Very good image! what mount do you have on with the TOA?
How come I got a feeling he gonna say an AP 1200 or a MI-250?
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Post by Canopus Lim »

Nice image and colours look real. Looks like what Jupiter would look like in the eyepiece.
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Post by aquillae »

thanks a lot guys :D , i hope it's not too dim on your monitor screen.

btw, i processed another version (this one went through wavelet 1,2,3 on Registax4 before I processed it using Photoshop). Not sure which one is better, but the first version looks more natural.
http://www.mettex.net/astrojeff/blogpic ... 16UTv2.jpg

Remus: i have EM200 USDII (older version, no goto).

VinSnr: i wish i had AP1200 / MI-250 :P. here's the pic as requested:
http://www.astrojeff.com/EM200/setup.jpg
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Post by cataclysm »

Good work... Nice and natural looking Jupiter!!
Yes its a nice natural looking Jupiter.
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