Jupiter

	Date: 9/30/2007 Location: Home driveway in San Diego with extreme light pollution Conditions: 77% 20 day moon, seeing 4/10, transparency 6/10, temperature 69 F Telescope: TV85 scope, prime focus, no diagonal, 40mm extension tube. Mount: Losmandy G11, Gemini goto, polar scope used to align Guiding: None Camera: The Image Source DMK21AF04 with Lumicon LRGB filter tray Focusing: Manual using IC Capture live view on laptop. Exposures: 333 frame AVI each of -IR-red-green-blue with Astronomic filters using IC Capture, (0) darks, (0)flats Processing:Registax 4.0.1.1, standard align and stack each of 4 avi's saved in TIF, used IP to align 4 TIF LRGB frames, used Photoshop CS to composite the LRGB; unsharp mask, cropped, converted to jpeg for web. Comments: This is my first planet image using the mono camera with color filters and LRGB processing. I needed to use more magnification with a Powermate or longer focal length telescope, but I got the process down.
	Date: 5/29/2007 Location:Home driveway in San Diego with extreme light pollution Conditions: 100% moon, seeing 6/10, transparency 6/10, temperature 59 F Telescope:C8 Celestron 8" scope, prime focus, with diagonal, & 2.5 Powermate Mount: Losmandy G11, Gemini goto, polar scope used to align Guiding: None Camera: The Image Source DMK 21AF04 Focusing: Manual using IC Capture live view on laptop. Exposures: 500 frame AVI using IC Capture, (0) darks, (0)flats Processing: Registax 4.0.1.1, standard align and stack, converted to jpg, Photoshop CS; unsharp mask, cropped, reduced size for web. Comments: Remember to use histogram to aid in focusing next time as focus may be off. There was lots of moisture this night also.
	4/14/2007, 1:30 a.m. : Tierra Del Sol, CA, Celestron C8, Toucan Pro 740 web cam, prime focus, 1 AVI best 1300/1500 frames captured using K3CCD Tools setting 1/33s, daylight color, 60% gain, 50% brightness, used K3CCD to grade, align, and combined using top 94% to a jpn file. Moved to Registax and used wavelets to bring out detail, rotated to match actual image orientation, and converted to Jpeg. The result was then processed with Photoshop CS using levels, unsharp mask. File was then converted to 8 bit jpeg for the internet. Transparency 3/10, Seeing 3/10. Jupiter was very low in the sky and the seeing and transparency was horrible. Must try again at home and use a 2.5x Powermate. Use less frames and test stacking to get the colors right.
	2/7/2004 Taken with my friend's FS102 f8 Takahashi Refractor, Takahashi GEM, ToUcam Pro 840k web cam, Prime Focus, 5x Powermate. Transparency 6/10, Seeing 5/10. 12 AVI's were generated and used in Registax to align and stack, resulting in 12 jpg files. The files were processed further with Photoshop CS using levels, hue, Gaussian blur, and unsharp mask. Photoshop CS layers were used with difference blending mode to align all 12 frames for the GIF. The resulting file with 12 layers was then processed by Adobe Image Ready to create the gif animation shown here. It runs 10 times and then stops. My first try at a planetary gif animation.