Suk Lee
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http://www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/view_photo.asp?pid=2208
Incredible.
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TOMars
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Reged: 02/14/04
Posts: 233
Loc: Lancaster, CA
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 You're right I did have to see that. Is it me or can you see relief in the clouds? Its a beautiful age when an amateur can take images like that. A C-11 no less. Im flabbergasted. UnsharpMask it, it'll blow your mind.
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Tom Varden
Lancaster, CA
http://labmonkeyonline.com/astrophotography_by_tom_varden.htm
Edited by TOMars (04/29/04 04:17 AM)
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zccopwrx
professor emeritus
Reged: 12/29/03
Posts: 511
Loc: Albany, NY
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Yeah, I could do that...
not.
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TeamGS
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Loc: Elk Grove, CA
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Holy SH*&! 
That image was even taken at 1/33 sec!!
He says that the seeing wasn't even that great!
I feel so inadequate...sniff...
***EDIT***
I smply ran the image through Registax and hit the RGB shift and just a little wavelets. WOWIEE!!!!
Gary
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Emanuele
Good Boy wants Cake
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 3990
Loc: Miami, Florida
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http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/planets_index.htm
That's the link to his page! Check out other pictures as well!
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Suk Lee
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Posts: 4315
Loc: Pleasanton, CA
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UN-believeable
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Bird
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Reged: 08/07/03
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Loc: Canberra, Australia
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I couldnt resist, and so I loaded that image into astra-image and applied a little deconvolution. Now I can see a couple of interesting things...
There is a vertical seam running down that image, just to the left of the white storm that is second from the left.
If you haven't seen deconvolution in action, you should install Astra Image (it's free for evaluation), load that image, split it into 3 grey images and then apply 5 turns of LR deconvolution with PSF of about 1.6 pixels.
Recombine the grey images into a colour image and prepare to be impressed :-)
Bird
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Emanuele
Good Boy wants Cake
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 3990
Loc: Miami, Florida
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BIrd, can you post an image of what you did for us?
Thanks!
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Bird
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/07/03
Posts: 2621
Loc: Canberra, Australia
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Well, normally I wouldnt want to post someone elses work - especially if I have made changes to it!
But, with attribution to Jose Suro and without his permission, I'll post it anyway :-)
Just for the record, the original is here:
http://www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/view_photo.asp?pid=2208
And I have attached a copy, modified as follows:
- loaded into astra image, split into 3 grey images
- LR deconvolution: 7 steps, PSF 1.7 pixels
- recombined into colour image.
No other processing.
**EDIT** oops - that was a litle large, here's a smaller one :-)
**EDIT** I just tried another LR setting and got better results, so I've changed this post and the image...
Bird
Edited by Bird (04/30/04 03:13 AM)
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Emanuele
Good Boy wants Cake
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 3990
Loc: Miami, Florida
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WOW ! Great work there!! Incredible details, even more!
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Suk Lee
Post Laureate
Reged: 10/07/03
Posts: 4315
Loc: Pleasanton, CA
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GEEZ LOUISE!!!
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Rushwind
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 03/11/04
Posts: 2133
Loc: Newark, CA
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Did you guys notice that he has a picture of Uranus on his website?
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/uranus-08272003.htm
Now that's just showing off...
Jimbo
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I used to shoot film.
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gazerjim
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Reged: 02/12/04
Posts: 7726
Loc: About where I thought I was......
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That's gotta hurt some feelings over at NASA JPL!
jim
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Bird
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Reged: 08/07/03
Posts: 2621
Loc: Canberra, Australia
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With a bit more fiddling I have improved the image a bit more, so I have changed the post.
Bird
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rydberg
sage
Reged: 02/25/04
Posts: 326
Loc: Richmond, KY, USA
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I had discovered this site last december. Before then, I had taken just 1 picture of the Moon though my department 5" telescope (I teach physics, but I am definitely NOT an astronomer). It was a rude reminder of what it means to be a good experimenter. I went out and bought myself a telescope (a 6" for now  and I will not be satisfied until I can get something at least in the same ballpark as Mr. Suro. If you really want to be "sucker-punched", take a look at this Mars:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/mars-08272003.htm
Marco
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gazerjim
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Loc: About where I thought I was......
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I think that Mr. Suro has combined great imaging skill with an observing location with seeing most of us can only dream about. Quite a few of the "world class" pics I see are taken at places near the ocean. Hopefully, this kind of seeing visits all of us from time to time.
Jim
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Henry J. Tillman
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litespeed
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 10/31/03
Posts: 955
Loc: Treasure Coast, FL
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That is really sweet.
Some of it actually doesnt look real it is so good......
Whew.......
Aspiring........
AJ
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PMB
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 09/07/03
Posts: 768
Loc: Gainesville TX
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Super images! Looks like someone got themselves a very special mirror. That kinda detail sure doesnt come from the camera or software! Have to be able to collect the data before you can process it!
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Patrick
Mountain Springs Observatory
Mewlon 250/NJP zzzz Dream zzzzzz
One good Eye one bad
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Bird
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/07/03
Posts: 2621
Loc: Canberra, Australia
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Looking carefully at the image it's evident that the instrument has a really nice mirror and is very well collimated.
I'd suggest that only a slight miscollimation is needed to turn that image into one that has 1/4 of the detail...
Bird
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PGR Dragonfly Express, PGR Dragonfly 2
RedHat Linux + Coriander
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conus
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Reged: 10/12/03
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Loc: OC, Calif
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Quote:
Quite a few of the "world class" pics I see are taken at places near the ocean.
I've noticed the same thing. Chris Go's images from the Philippines and someone else from French Polynesia come to mind. In what way would the oceans proximity affect the seeing?
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12" Orion XTi
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