| The Jupiter opposition of 2004. Photographs were taken with a 3com WebConnect webcam (at medium resolution) at the prime focus of my f/15 7" LX-50 Meade Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope. All photos are at f/15. All of these images were stacked using Registax 2.0. Wavelets were used to increase the sharpness. The files so created were then further processed with Corel Photopaint 9 using the unsharp mask, tone curve, hue, guassian blur and contrast. All of these are eyeballed for best iamge. |
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2/22/2004 10:56 pm PST Stacked 111 frames
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| 2/22/2004 10:56 pm PST Stacked 214 frames (same as above with more frames stacked). |
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| 2/22/2004 11:19 pm PST Stacked 403 frames |
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2/22/2004 11:19 pm PST Stacked 403 frames. Note that lower
quality but more frames were included than in the previous picture (above).
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| 2/22/2004 11:41 pm PST Stacked 314 frames (No Photopaint processing). |
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| 2/22/2004 11:41 pm PST Stacked 314 frames and processed with Photopaint. Note how the features are sharper. |
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| All photos are with north pole up. | |