Date: 19 May 2017 @ 21.00hrs BST
Equipment: Phillips TouCam Pro II, Celestron C9.25, Vixen x2 Barlow
Subframes: 1 minute @ 20fps, AVI output stacked and sharpened in Registax 2.1.14.
This was really just a test to make sure that the observatory electrics were working and all of the software and hardware were talking to each other. As it worked out, EQASCOM and SkyMap Pro 9 worked well enough to get Jupiter showing in the finder scope first time, with but a few small tweaks to get the image onto the tiny web cam chip.
Jupiter was only 34 degrees above the southern horizon at the time, and the seeing was pretty unsteady.
Nevertheless, the magic of the Registax processing software recognised enough decent subframes and put them together to give a reasonably decent view. There are much more recent versions of this magical bit of freeware available, but I like the simplicity of the 15 year old version I have, and for the little bit of planetary imaging I do, it works just fine.
Jupiter's closest moon, Io, was hardly visible on the original image so I took it back into PaintShop Pro to stretch and sharpen it up to make it match the view through the eyepiece.
Subframes: 1 minute @ 20fps, AVI output stacked and sharpened in Registax 2.1.14.
This was really just a test to make sure that the observatory electrics were working and all of the software and hardware were talking to each other. As it worked out, EQASCOM and SkyMap Pro 9 worked well enough to get Jupiter showing in the finder scope first time, with but a few small tweaks to get the image onto the tiny web cam chip.
Jupiter was only 34 degrees above the southern horizon at the time, and the seeing was pretty unsteady.
Nevertheless, the magic of the Registax processing software recognised enough decent subframes and put them together to give a reasonably decent view. There are much more recent versions of this magical bit of freeware available, but I like the simplicity of the 15 year old version I have, and for the little bit of planetary imaging I do, it works just fine.
Jupiter's closest moon, Io, was hardly visible on the original image so I took it back into PaintShop Pro to stretch and sharpen it up to make it match the view through the eyepiece.
