From: "Duane" <macastronomer@mac.com>

Date: July 15, 2008 12:45:01 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: First shot of Jupiter 08 for me

Thanks Alan. I should balance the color out a bit. If I get time, I'll do some more careful 

processing.

Here were the settings as I captured that shot:

=================== File:20080714_015550_L.mov #frames 2285

Color Camera - Model:'DFx 21AF04.AS' SerialNumber: 0x2D651E3

Camera Display Format: 640x480 8bit

CCD Image Left: 0

CCD Image Top: 0

CCD Image Width: 640

CCD Image: Height 480

Gamma:  1.00

Blue Gain: 47

Red Gain: 47

Brightness: 516

Black Point: 0

Exposure: 33.33 ms

Sharpness Limiting On: 0

Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0

Flat Frame Correction On: 0

Invert Image On: 0

Flip Horizontal On: 0

Flip Vertical On: 0

Binning Off Color

Here are the settings as I stacked (I stacked more than I thought I did):

----Processing Movie20080714_015550_L.mov 1 of 1

Stacking : 8 Bit Movie

CI Cutoff: 80 %

Aligned Using: Green Channel

Gross Alignment: Planetary

Pixel Alignment: Horizontal and Vertical Separate

Pixel Alignment Block Size: 96 x 96 pixels

Pixel Matching Tolerance : Medium

Scale Frames by: 2 x

Frame Sharpening: High with Noise Reduction

Gaussian Blur sharpness and alignment frames: Off

HighQuality Bayer:On

Auto Clip Area: On

Averaging Images

Sharpness Statistics: Min 0.830378 , Max 0.908323 , STD0.012069 , Mean 0.869526 , 

Median 0.868741 , Mode 0.868133, CutOff  Value 0.886745

Pixel Noise Percentage: 1.298384

Main Image Centroid   X:919.2, Y:562.6

Pixel Area One Centroid  X:1034.2, Y:557.6

Pixel Area Two Centroid   X:904.2, Y:447.6

Stacked 191 out of 2285 frames

Any and all advice is welcome!

Duane

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Alan Friedman <alan@...> wrote:

Hi Duane - Excellent! Color perhaps a bit on the yellow side, but a  

great result from such a low altitude.

best wishes,

Alan

On Jul 14, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Duane wrote:

Here's a shot I took of Jupiter this morning (July 14,08). The  

seeing wasn't bad but also wasn't

as good as I would have wanted.

http://homepage.mac.com/deal/share/n702287551_581671_1242.jpg

That's Ganymede and Europa, Io is behind the planet, Callisto would  

be far off to the left. The

image should be flipped vertically, but I forgot...

I'll post my settings when I get a chance. I was shooting pretty  

fast, 30 frames per second (if

I recall correctly). This is on a DFK color hooked up to a Celestron  

C-11. 2000 frames, took

70% confidence level which worked out to about 119frames. Processed  

in photoshop.

Duane