Europa wrote:
You do a great job on these, can you answer a couple questions (I tried Jupiter last night),
1) how do you get your fps so high, the most I could get was 58 and those was on the smallest size, my camera is supppose to be able to do 150fps at the large?
2) what are your starting values for the wavelets (I assume there is a lot of adjustments, iâÂÂm Kinda looking for a starting point)
Thanks in advanced.
Thank you very much. These are the best videos I have been able to capture for Jupiter and I think some of that is the mount.
I am using the CGEM that I picked up in August for the Solar eclipse and it is giving me very clean tracking which helps a lot.
I use a Celestron 236C CMOS camera that is great for planets but i have had poor luck with deep space.
I gave up the ability to do long images for the ability to shoot really fast frames for the sun and planet imaging.
I am supposedly supposed to get up to 200 fps at the lowest resolution but the best I have been able to hit is 140 fps at 640 X 480.
I use the software that came with the camera and I have been very pleased with it. I have Sharpcap, Firecapture and Astrocap but always wind up using ICap just because it is so easy to setup and tune in.
I find that if my focus is off or if I am too high or two low with my exposure, I lose a lot of frames so I focus with the software zoomed to 150 to 200% and twiddle until the average look is pretty darn sharp when I go back down to 50 or 80%.
I don't know if this is very helpful but I have the best frame rates with the software that the manufacturer recommends.
Tonight at 10PM Mountain or 9PM Pacific, the red spot will start being visable and will be so for around 2 hours.
If you have clear skies maybe you can get some good data.
Here is a screen shot of the Registax6 settings I am using.
Good luck and I hope I helped answer some questions.
Jim