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Old 27-June-2005, 10:40 PM
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Was a funny night last night.. the jetstream has finally gone for now, but the clouds are here instead. It was clear just after sunset and I set the scope and platform up in-between getting the kids ready for bed. I knew the GRS was rising just after 6pm.

As I was getting everything aligned, I saw a big bank of clouds coming in from the East so I hurriedly shoved the ToUcam into the 2.4x barlow, quickly achieved finger focus and started capturing right away. I just got 90 seconds of avi in before the clouds came.

In breaks in the cloud, I tried achieving better focus by hooking up the motorised focuser but in my hurry, bumped the scope off course and had to wait for the next break in the clouds to align it again. Got focus right, everything ready, then there was clouds.

I went back down 10 minutes later to check the situation, and lucky I did because it was just starting to spit all over the laptop and scope.. so quickly pulled it down and packed it away.

So quite a frustrating night, 5-6/10 seeing, no jetstream, but only time for one avi with the roughest focus.

10fps, a mix of processing attempts here with varying number of frames stacked, some rotated, some processed in astraimage.

Appreciate any comments.
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Old 28-June-2005, 12:08 AM
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that's pretty darn good, especially considering the frustrating conditions
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Old 28-June-2005, 02:09 AM
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Iceman dont you just love when you have waited all day to get home and set up for the night thinking ok this is going to be a good night for photos, and when it comes time to play eveything just goes to, well you know where it goes. Anyway your Jupiter shots are very nice. Later Paul.
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Old 28-June-2005, 08:51 AM
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i always love those jupiter pics cant wait for that day i see it thru a scope, with my own eyes. i have dreamt abt it ever so often.
keep it up iceman!!
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Old 15-July-2005, 09:18 PM
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i always love those jupiter pics cant wait for that day i see it thru a scope, with my own eyes. i have dreamt abt it ever so often.
keep it up iceman!!
these are great Jupiter pics, great work by Iceman

very good
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Amazing pics. Nice one!
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Great shots, thanks. Your patience and persistence paid off.
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