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Feb 15, 2017 22:48:30   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
I setup the Celestron C8 SCT on my AVX and did a dirty solar system alignment to save time tonight.
This is my source of alignment, lovely Venus. I shot 5000 frames at 640 X 480 and 150 frames per second to minimize movement.
Seeing was pretty darn good and I stacked the best 250 frames. I brought the TIFF up in Photoshop CC 2017 and did adjust the black level only to remove over shoot of the rim.

This got me feeling cocky and I swung over to the Orion nebula and did 100 frames at 1 second each. I stacked 30 frames and played with the results in CC allowing the program to adjust the levels, then I added the color.
Not wonderful but it was just a test I thought I would share.

Jim


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Feb 15, 2017 23:49:30   #
JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA
 
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
I setup the Celestron C8 SCT on my AVX and did a dirty solar system alignment to save time tonight.
This is my source of alignment, lovely Venus. I shot 5000 frames at 640 X 480 and 150 frames per second to minimize movement.
Seeing was pretty darn good and I stacked the best 250 frames. I brought the TIFF up in Photoshop CC 2017 and did adjust the black level only to remove over shoot of the rim.

This got me feeling cocky and I swung over to the Orion nebula and did 100 frames at 1 second each. I stacked 30 frames and played with the results in CC allowing the program to adjust the levels, then I added the color.
Not wonderful but it was just a test I thought I would share.

Jim
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You did well. Impressive how the stacking SW finds something so good inside all those individual frames. Maybe one of these days, home telescopes will have their own adaptive optics and will be able to adjust the mirror the way the Big Boys do and make this unnecessary??? But that also requires a high power laser to light up a spot in the sky to create an artificial star to use as the reference for this to work. I'm just sure the airlines will have no problems at all diverting all flights away from my backyard!!! FAT CHANCE.

I haven't done this kind of stacking yet, but I do know how bad an individual frame can look. The higher magnification needed for planets really amplifies the effect of the atmosphere.

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Feb 16, 2017 12:51:05   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Very cool Jim!
I'm glad to see somebody is finding a hole in this winter soup.

Heap big rains coming in. The Weather folks are saying the most rains this year. I told Betty, "It's only February..."

(I'm currently revising my equipment and having WiFi issues... )

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Feb 16, 2017 14:06:49   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
I setup the Celestron C8 SCT on my AVX and did a dirty solar system alignment to save time tonight.
This is my source of alignment, lovely Venus. I shot 5000 frames at 640 X 480 and 150 frames per second to minimize movement.
Seeing was pretty darn good and I stacked the best 250 frames. I brought the TIFF up in Photoshop CC 2017 and did adjust the black level only to remove over shoot of the rim.

This got me feeling cocky and I swung over to the Orion nebula and did 100 frames at 1 second each. I stacked 30 frames and played with the results in CC allowing the program to adjust the levels, then I added the color.
Not wonderful but it was just a test I thought I would share.

Jim
I setup the Celestron C8 SCT on my AVX and did a d... (show quote)



Looking forward to tonights shots.
Craig

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Feb 16, 2017 20:14:00   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
JimH123 wrote:
You did well. Impressive how the stacking SW finds something so good inside all those individual frames. Maybe one of these days, home telescopes will have their own adaptive optics and will be able to adjust the mirror the way the Big Boys do and make this unnecessary??? But that also requires a high power laser to light up a spot in the sky to create an artificial star to use as the reference for this to work. I'm just sure the airlines will have no problems at all diverting all flights away from my backyard!!! FAT CHANCE.

I haven't done this kind of stacking yet, but I do know how bad an individual frame can look. The higher magnification needed for planets really amplifies the effect of the atmosphere.
You did well. Impressive how the stacking SW find... (show quote)


Jim, stacking AVI video is easy peasy.
I use Autostakkert2 and let it do all the work.
I will work on doing a step by step that makes it pretty simple.
I have really gotten some nice shots with this and I have pulled up some really bad ones.
When I have problems getting a good stack I change over to Registax but it is not a very consistant program.

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Feb 16, 2017 20:16:18   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
SonnyE wrote:
Very cool Jim!
I'm glad to see somebody is finding a hole in this winter soup.

Heap big rains coming in. The Weather folks are saying the most rains this year. I told Betty, "It's only February..."

(I'm currently revising my equipment and having WiFi issues... )


That dam of yours is not looking very good. I hope you have water wings because the storms seem to have you in its bulls eye.
Be safe out there please.
Jim

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Feb 16, 2017 20:21:23   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
CraigFair wrote:

Looking forward to tonights shots.
Craig


Now your just being greedy..

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Feb 17, 2017 11:05:08   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Now your just being greedy..

No I hope you got the shots. Sonny, Brian, Jim H and I have to wait until next week for some clear nights.
Craig

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Feb 18, 2017 10:56:26   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
That dam of yours is not looking very good. I hope you have water wings because the storms seem to have you in its bulls eye.
Be safe out there please.
Jim


Thanks Jim. We have a boat in the driveway...
That's the Oroville Dam, way, way North of us. North of Sacramento. Just an unprecedented amount of water hitting them up there. A good story HERE.
We do have Family up there who would have had to have been evacuated if they still lived where they had.
My weather station on the roof brought up some interesting numbers for yesterdays little squall... 2.83 inches of rain. That total was in the last 24 hours.
Totals this month: 4.28 inches. This year: 9.45 inches.

More locally, the L. A. River was almost running over its banks yesterday. More water than I've ever seen in that huge concreted drainage system.
An Army Corp of Engineers flood control basin couldn't get its gates open to let the water out. Generator failure (?) Media Pablum. The gates probably haven't been exercised in over half a century and are rusted shut.
One guy got swept into a flow and drowned in his car, so they are calling it, "The Killer Storm!"
One less moron in the world today. I have no empathy for any idiot who drives into a flooding channel.

I'd think it is safe to say it's been a bit damp...

Goes to show just how small the human race is... And how pious man is for thinking he can out engineer the weather, earthquakes, or storms. Lovely Petri dish we are in.

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Feb 18, 2017 15:23:50   #
JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA
 
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
That dam of yours is not looking very good. I hope you have water wings because the storms seem to have you in its bulls eye.
Be safe out there please.
Jim


Our Lake Anderson Dam is now in overflow stage. Image 1 shows this morning which I took in light rain. (We always have rain). The entrance to the overflow is on the far side. Image 2 is the water flowing down the overflow ramp. I haven't seen this since 1997.

Image 3 is looking down from the top of the dam to the normal water exit which is flowing at max capacity. Image 4 is a closeup of the dam water exit from the parking lot. And finally, image 5 is the water fall created by the water going down the overflow ramp.

This dam, holding back 90,000 acre-feet of water, has some cracks and is in need of some massive rework. They have set a limit of 60% capacity until the fixes are made since they tell us that an earthquake of mag 6.6 would cause the dam to fail and send a wall of water through Morgan Hill about 38 feet high and then a short time later, about 9 feet high in San Jose. Meanwhile, they are emptying it as fast as they can, but water is entering faster than it is exiting.

Sort of like the dam in Oroville, except our lake is only 39 times smaller.


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Feb 18, 2017 16:40:04   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
JimH123 wrote:
Our Lake Anderson Dam is now in overflow stage. Image 1 shows this morning which I took in light rain. (We always have rain). The entrance to the overflow is on the far side. Image 2 is the water flowing down the overflow ramp. I haven't seen this since 1997.

Image 3 is looking down from the top of the dam to the normal water exit which is flowing at max capacity. Image 4 is a closeup of the dam water exit from the parking lot. And finally, image 5 is the water fall created by the water going down the overflow ramp.

This dam, holding back 90,000 acre-feet of water, has some cracks and is in need of some massive rework. They have set a limit of 60% capacity until the fixes are made since they tell us that an earthquake of mag 6.6 would cause the dam to fail and send a wall of water through Morgan Hill about 38 feet high and then a short time later, about 9 feet high in San Jose. Meanwhile, they are emptying it as fast as they can, but water is entering faster than it is exiting.

Sort of like the dam in Oroville, except our lake is only 39 times smaller.
Our Lake Anderson Dam is now in overflow stage. I... (show quote)

Wow Jim H, pretty spectacular shots. Santa Barbara has had mudslides and small flooded streets.
LA had sinkholes and flooded streets. 1 idiot got themselves killed.
Craig

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Feb 18, 2017 19:18:38   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
CraigFair wrote:
No I hope you got the shots. Sonny, Brian, Jim H and I have to wait until next week for some clear nights.
Craig


Not a chance, yesterday it was cloudy and its cloudy now.
The Weather channel says I might have a 3 hour window later but they don't have a very good record here when it comes to clouds.
We shall see what mother nature has in store later tonight.
Jim

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Feb 18, 2017 19:23:00   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
SonnyE wrote:

One guy got swept into a flow and drowned in his car, so they are calling it, "The Killer Storm!"
One less moron in the world today. I have no empathy for any idiot who drives into a flooding channel.

I'd think it is safe to say it's been a bit damp...

Goes to show just how small the human race is... And how pious man is for thinking he can out engineer the weather, earthquakes, or storms. Lovely Petri dish we are in.
br One guy got swept into a flow and drowned in h... (show quote)


Well another Darwin award winner.
We see the same thing here since we don't usually have rain in the same area that the water flows to.
Be safe and stay dry.
Jim

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Feb 18, 2017 19:25:42   #
Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM
 
JimH123 wrote:
Our Lake Anderson Dam is now in overflow stage. Image 1 shows this morning which I took in light rain. (We always have rain). The entrance to the overflow is on the far side. Image 2 is the water flowing down the overflow ramp. I haven't seen this since 1997.

Image 3 is looking down from the top of the dam to the normal water exit which is flowing at max capacity. Image 4 is a closeup of the dam water exit from the parking lot. And finally, image 5 is the water fall created by the water going down the overflow ramp.

This dam, holding back 90,000 acre-feet of water, has some cracks and is in need of some massive rework. They have set a limit of 60% capacity until the fixes are made since they tell us that an earthquake of mag 6.6 would cause the dam to fail and send a wall of water through Morgan Hill about 38 feet high and then a short time later, about 9 feet high in San Jose. Meanwhile, they are emptying it as fast as they can, but water is entering faster than it is exiting.

Sort of like the dam in Oroville, except our lake is only 39 times smaller.
Our Lake Anderson Dam is now in overflow stage. I... (show quote)


That is still an awful lot of water.
We keep getting the clouds that you discard so I haven't been able to do much shooting.
You got some nice shots of what's going on. I bet you could hardly hear anything other than the roar of water.
Be safe out there.
Jim

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Feb 19, 2017 10:45:30   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
" They have set a limit of 60% capacity until the fixes are made..."

I don't think Mother Nature is hearing the rules.
Earthquakes... yeah, that just what we need now.
Everybody sink into the mud.

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