The purpose of this thread is:
1) To allow members who are clouded out to have data to play with
2) To provide novices with data to practice with
3) To provide "out of season" datasets (e.g. Mars right now)
4) To provide OSC users with mono data to experiment with and vice versa
5) To preserve and make available particularly special datasets, e.g. large apertures, exceptional seeing, interesting events such as transits, eclipses, spokes (on Saturn), etc.
6) To put these datasets all in one conveniently accessible thread
The Rules:
1) Please only add exceptional datasets to the thread, as described in #5. We don't need 100 out-of-focus SER files of Jupiter's backside from poorly collimated C5s in poor seeing. On the other hand, this is not meant to discourage exceptional datasets from non-gigantic apertures; if you have an excellent dataset for a C8 in great seeing, particularly of an interesting event, please share it.
2) SER files and 16 bit pngs should be hosted somewhere such as Google Drive or Dropbox, and links provided in your post.
3) If you share a dataset, you must share:
- the raw SER file (or files)
- the corresponding raw 16bit stacks, in png format, stacked as you would normally stack them.
- your final post-processed version(s) of the image(s)
- WinJUPOS compatible filenames are required for the SER files (Cloudy Nights will change the name of your files if you host them in your Gallery).
4) In order to avoid the thread becoming cluttered with responses containing members' runs at the shared data, which would make getting straight to the shared data harder, there will be a second pinned thread dedicated to people's efforts with and discussions of the posted datasets. Anyone who takes a run at a dataset may post it in the discussion thread, and kudos and processing discussions may be posted there as well.
So remember: This is the data thread, not the discussion thread.
Edited by Borodog, 17 December 2023 - 06:40 PM.
