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Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: CptTrips on September 09, 2007, 03:24:35 PM
Took this last weekend.  Took most of the week to process.  

Built up from the best quality 500/3300  sub-frames using regitax multi-point alignment (40 points).

Ate up about 20 solid CPU hours.  (and I had to start over once, don't want to talk about it!)  Then a couple of hours final tweaking.

Scope 12" Meade LX200.  Camera Skynyx 2-1M.


Vallis Alpes (http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/vallis_alpes_region.jpg)



To give you an idea of what was involved, here is a average single raw frame example: Raw Frame (http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/vallis_alpes_region_raw.jpg)

Clear Skys,

Wab
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: JB88 on September 09, 2007, 03:34:46 PM
wow!
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: TalonX on September 09, 2007, 03:45:50 PM
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Originally posted by JB88
wow!


Ditto.  Wow.

Very nice.  

Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: Latrobe on September 09, 2007, 03:48:35 PM
It's the moooooon!! :lol
very nice :aok
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: nirvana on September 09, 2007, 04:09:10 PM
Awesome picture, thanks for sharing:aok
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: Kermit de frog on September 09, 2007, 04:33:39 PM
:O
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: Mark Luper on September 09, 2007, 04:37:55 PM
Great photo AKWabbit!

Mark
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: OOZ662 on September 09, 2007, 04:38:53 PM
All that work and you made it a JPEG? :cry
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: CptTrips on September 09, 2007, 04:46:00 PM
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Originally posted by OOZ662
All that work and you made it a JPEG? :cry


:D

Heh.  All my originals are in TIFF.  I just spit out the jpg for downloading courtesy.  

Here it is in PNG and it does look a minute bit better:
PNG (http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/vallis_alpes_region.png)

Wab
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: eskimo2 on September 09, 2007, 04:57:14 PM
Cool!

Is your real name really Jason Nirby?
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: CptTrips on September 09, 2007, 05:01:25 PM
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Cool!

Is your real name really Jason Nirby?



:huh

Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: AKIron on September 09, 2007, 05:14:56 PM
Nice work Wabbit.














Sorry but this had to be done. ;)

(http://www.sidesconsulting.com/misc/wheresnilsen.jpg)
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: eskimo2 on September 09, 2007, 05:24:30 PM
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Originally posted by AKWabbit
:huh



LOL!
I respond better to salmon.
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: eskimo2 on September 09, 2007, 05:25:37 PM
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Originally posted by AKIron
Nice work Wabbit.














Sorry but this had to be done. ;)

(http://www.sidesconsulting.com/misc/wheresnilsen.jpg)


LOL,

Very nice,
Add it to the Photoshop Nilsen thread.
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: CptTrips on September 09, 2007, 05:31:58 PM
[QUOTESorry but this had to be done. ;)
(http://www.sidesconsulting.com/misc/wheresnilsen.jpg) [/B][/QUOTE]

:O :noid :O
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: Hornet33 on September 09, 2007, 08:50:39 PM
That's no moon....it's a space station!!!!!:rofl
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: eagl on September 09, 2007, 10:15:06 PM
What kind of software do you use for that?  Combining the raw photos?  Also, how long did it take for you to take the original sub-frames?
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: BlueJ1 on September 09, 2007, 10:20:54 PM
Dibs!
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x226/BlueJ17/vallis_alpes_region.jpg)
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: CptTrips on September 10, 2007, 10:04:43 PM
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Originally posted by eagl
What kind of software do you use for that?  Combining the raw photos?  Also, how long did it take for you to take the original sub-frames?


The software I used is called Registax.  Its freeware.

The camera I use (Skynyx 2-1M) is essientially a high (very) end webcam. So at that image resolution I am taking about 15fps.  It can get up to about 60fps for a 100x100 pixel frame.

Other peaple get really astounding results out of modified webcams like the Phillips Toucam.

The secret is to be able to take thousands of short frames to capture bits of stable air.  The atmosphere undulates the image through the telescope like you were looking at a picture at the bottom of a swimming pool.

The software, by sorting, grading, and combining the bets bits of the best frames can build up an image of sufficiently good quality and low noise that you can then apply other sharpening algorythims to sharpen it further.


So it only took about 3-4 minutes to actually capture the frames for this picture, even though it too much, much longer to mathmatically crunch through all the pixel data to be able to make something of it.

Regards,
Wab
Title: Another Lunar Photo
Post by: Jack16 on September 10, 2007, 10:06:45 PM
Awesome!:cool: