Re: Jupiter image using Kodak EasyShare point-n-shoot camera
- From: "Jason H." <exosearch@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:40:23 -0700
I'm looking for software that will let me use individual images like
this 42 frame stack (primitive as it is, made using the family Kodak
and Registax and it still needs cropping too) which is from June 4th
http://setisociety.org/jupiteralphastack2.jpg
and use in it in a (hopefully) slower/better animation than this
terrible 1 second test GIF movie I threw together from that same night
of ~1.5 hours of Jupiter rotation (using 7 raw/noisy low-res un-
stacked individual frames.)
http://setisociety.org/jupiter4june07rotation.gif
I'm hoping to make a better movie with many more stacked frames
similar to the first one above; however it is tediously painful to
hand select the frames for stacking, only to have them misaligned and
different brightnesses in the animation movie. Is there software that
equalizes the brightness between frames to make them not strobe, and
that automatically keeps the planet centered? There are 117,000
frames from which I can select several thousand for stacking (which
I've tediously been doing by hand) and I'd like to automate the
process if possible. Is there such an animation software? If not
available alone, is there planet rotation movie software that comes
with a purpose-built astro camera?
Regards, Jason H.
On May 23, 11:54 pm, "Jason H." <exosea...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here'sJupiterfrom May 21st
http://setisociety.org/jupiterzulu5stack.jpg
I know it's not anything as good as Chris Go's or Damian Peach's (and
since I'm a relative newbie and my scope is only an ancient 8" SCT, a
Meade 2080, and I think Chris uses an 11", perhaps came out O.K.
considering my many limitations?) , but I've been fiddling with this
camera because I have it for family photos (and my laptop isn't up to
the data storage task of using a webcam for astrophotos anyway), it's
aKodakEasyShare Z730 Camera (discontinued) in video mode at 30 FPS
(each frame of which comes out from the screen capture around ~720 x
480 pixels, which were 55 consecutive frames for this shot from the
DVD (made with a household DVR/DVD burner for TV) and saved each frame
capture as a BMP that Registax could process. It's around 2 seconds
of video. Exposure/contrast/brightness adjustments were made in Roxio
PhotoSuite 5 (a basic freebie disk image program I resorted to after I
orginally tried and failed to adjust the brightness/contrast in my
ancient copy of Adobe Photodeluxe/Photoshop, but I couldn't coax the
brightness down enough in that program; luckily the very basic Roxio
Photosuite 5 gave me more control over mid-level elements in the
exposure control, but the camera color is still off and is picking up
CA from either the eyepiece or the 14mm camera objective. It was a
fun/cheap experiment anyway.
Regards, Jason H.
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