Very Cloudy Birthday Broadcast

Was very cloudy and quite breezy for my birthday today, but tried imaging and broadcasting on NSN anyways. Had to take frame by frame captures between the clouds and came up with this from 149 hand picked frames.

Thin clouds, wind and more clouds

Of course a dedicated imager always manages to make a mountain out of a mole hill.  Still not what I'd call perfect, but got some decent detail out of the poor conditions. 182 frames stacked and didn't have to throw out too many frames from wind shift.

Finally the rain is gone!

Despite the wind I managed a succesful debayered image shot, Initially shot in undebadayerd y800.  Then debayered in registax 5 to bring the color back out.  Now to actually use this method for faster framerates on planetary imaging......

5-12-2013 with yellow filter finally processed

Just couldn't get the image to stack in registax, but finally got it to work in autostakkert 2, wavelets in registax, then levels in GIMP.  The image was taken using a deep yellow planetary filter, and recorded in rgb24 so I wouldn't have to try debayering again.

Poor seeing for mothersday

Seeing was really unstable, and a slight image tear is noticeable in the final image, too lazy to reprocess right away, maybe get to it later.  163 frames stacked.

First Saturn attempt with the Neximage 5

Wasn't really thinking when I captured in y800 format, and then couldn't get debayering to work to bring the color out.  Tried pipp with registax, didn't work out quite right, but it stacked nicely in Autostakkert 2, then mild waveletts in Registax 5, cropped in irfanview, then level adjusted in GIMP.  The horrible seeing sure didn't help me out any last night, so its better than I was really expecting.  Edit:  Second is a reprocessed image that looks a little bit sharper than my first try at processing.

Glorious Day of Solar Imaging 5-6-2013

Well into the 60's for temps, and almost no wind.  Got in a nice long solar broadcast on Nightskiesnetwork.com and a good image with 198 frames stacked.

Cloudcast and Solar Image

Got in a 4.5 hour broadcast on Nsn today though the clouds, luckily my first capture was through really thin clouds and came out much better than expected.  157 frames stacked out quite nicely.

Solar 5-2-2013

Cool with a light breeze and clear til i started my broadcast on NSN, then it got cloudy and windy, got my captures just in the nick of time.