Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

I used the Celestron C8 on my CGEM mount tonight and imaged with my Celestron 236C color astro cam.
I shot 2 minute clips at 90 FPS and processed 25% of just over 9,000 frames for this.
Stacked in Autostakkert3 and wavelets with the odd settings in Registax6.
I cropped and expanded the capture in Photoshop and save as a PNG file so lets hope it posts well.
I like this one a lot.
Jim

Io transit of Jupiter

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SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

It Does!
The transit, and the shadow (eclipse?) on the planet.
Great capture Jim!
And the GRS!

pmsc70d Loc: Post Falls, Idaho

Wonderful shots! If only Galileo could have seen it like this.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Thanks Sonny.
I keep trying new things both shooting and processing.
Starting to narrow in.
Jim

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Thank you very much.
I have often said that Galileo would be so amazed at how well he did for what he had. I can see tears in his eyes if he were here.
Jim

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Great capture and processing! I've never shot a good enough Jupiter to actually show a transit (of any kind).

bwa

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Thank you Brian.
These are the first videos of Jupiter that I have shot on the CGEM I picked up last August. The videos are the most stable I have ever obtained. I need to try shooting with my 11” SCT and see how stable that one is.
I might have decent skies tonight so I may get a chance to see.
Here is one of the early shots not quite dialed in but decent none the less.
Thanks again.
Jim

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Europa Loc: West Hills, CA

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, i’m Kinda looking for a starting point)

Thanks in advanced.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

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

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Oddball settings

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Europa Loc: West Hills, CA

Thank you sooo much, this will help me a lot. I forgot, I was going to attach my “attempt” from last night.

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Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Thats a pretty decent start.
I dont know what you use to stack with but here is a screen shot of my Autostakkert session I am running on another AVI from the same night. The Quality graph is too the top almost all the way across so I am doing 80% of my shots.
We shall see.
Jim

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Paladin48 Loc: Orlando

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Thank you for the thumbs up.
Jim

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Wow Jim these are both great works. I'm going to have to go get my Nikon camera and get some photos. I can't wait until you get Saturn in your sights. I was up at 5 AM and was able to see all 3 planets. Also good luck with the 11".
Craig

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Thanks Craig.
I have the 11” sitting in the shade for an attempt tonight. I will have the GRS again from 22:30 until 02:30. Saturn won’t clear my tree blockade until 04:00 I think.
Crossing my fingers that the skies hold.
Jim