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[UP4014Fan]

My friends all ask me when I'm going to take photos of the planets.  Well, I just saw this thread from Mike Spooner.  135k images!?  I know it's from video, but wow!  I'm happy playing with 600 or so...

 

https://www.cloudyni...0-mars-4-21-25/

[happylimpet]

The software deals with them all. Its just one video file you drop into it.

[rj144]

As you said though, it's video.  You drop the video file in and the software extracts the frames, chooses the best ones, and stacks and aligns them.  On my laptop, the whole process is usually shorter than stacking 500 DSO pics.

Edited by rj144, 22 April 2025 - 11:00 AM.

[smiller]

I do both Deep Sky and planetary/lunar with my Goto Dob.

 

 Planetary is not that difficult… as was noted, the planetary programs handle the videos quickly and efficiently.  

 

Also for planets, you usually use a cropped frame so you’re not capturing at the full resolution of the camera. And with lunar, where you do often capture with the full camera, you don’t need nearly as many frames to get a good picture because it’s so bright… but data size can get big for full lunar shots.

 

The main difficulty is waiting around for planetary season and then wishing for excellent seeing and then being disappointed at the many mediocre nights I get.  It is nice that the moon phase matters little for planets and neither does city light pollution.

 

Doing Jupiter rotation videos does up the complexity and amount of work a fair bit…  so there’s no shortage of ways to make it challenging and difficult!

Edited by smiller, 23 April 2025 - 09:03 AM.

[dcaponeii]

I do both Deep Sky and planetary/lunar with my Goto Dob.

 

 Planetary is not that difficult… as was noted, the planetary programs handle the videos quickly and efficiently.  Also for planets, you usually use a cropped frame so you’re not capturing at the full resolution of the camera. And with lunar, where you do often capture with the full camera, you don’t need nearly as many frames to get a good picture because it’s so bright… but data size can get big for full lunar shots.

 

The main difficulty is waiting around for planetary season and then wishing for excellent seeing and then being disappointed at the many mediocre nights I get.  It is nice that the moon phase matters little for planets.

 

Doing Jupiter rotation videos does up the complexity and amount of work a fair bit…  so there’s no shortage of ways to make it challenging and difficult!

Me too, me too!!!
 

[Spaceman 56]

You Deep Sky imaging guys better keep your eyes on dcaponelli.  he is a Planetary Imaging Demon.   

 

Note to Mr Dcaponelli that not all Deep Sky astro imagers are in love with long subs. some prefer shorter ones.

 

if you have not seen Smilers tutorial on the Astro Imaging channel I suggest you track it down.