| The Jupiter opposition of 2004. Photographs were taken with a 3com HomeConnect 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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3/8/2004 8:48 pm PST Stacked 218 frames
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| 3/8/2004 9:10pm PST Stacked 337 frames |
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| 3/8/2004 9:47 pm PST Stacked 220 frames. This shot was taken on the high resolution setting of the camera, so there are fewer frames because the frame rate is slower. Also, this image was processed in Registax without re-sampling. |
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| 3/8/2004 9:47 pm PST Stacked 220 frames. Same as above except with 2x re-sampling. Note that most of my shots are taken at medium resolution to increase rep rate. It seems that the high resolution shots are not worth the extra time it takes to gather the same number of frames. |
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| All photos are with north pole up. | |