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Posts Made By: Gianluca Valentini

April 12, 2004 02:21 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

comparison of toucam raw/normal mode

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello Wei,

How did you process the RAW avi? Did you convert it into a "standard" avi and after process it with Registax? I tried the RAW modification, but I did not know exactly how to use the AVIRAW software to convert the raw avi into one that could be processed with Registax. For the time being, I modified my toucam to turn off sharpness and it seems to work better already, even though I could not test it on any relevant object.

Which option do you use when in RAW mode to have a "normal" color look?

Ciao Wei and thanks for posting results that could be helpful to all.

Luca

April 20, 2004 02:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter from Raiatea Island (french polynesia)

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Really impressive shot. Too bad the GRS was not in sight.

However, allow me to say that I find it surprising that someone with a keen sense of beauty and love for the cosmos, as most amateur astronomers seemed to be, can still show with pride a picture of a killed marlin (clear reference to the "miscellaneous" section on your website).

Thanks for this image, but not for the one on the website!
I apologize for this polemic remark, furthermore off topic, but I could not help it.

Ciao
Luca
Luca

April 21, 2004 12:49 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter from French Polynesia: Thank you all.

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello Leroi,

No I don't eat meat or fish anymore and, trust me, it is very hard, as I used to be especially very fond of meat. But that's my choice and I don't expect others to agree with me, nor I criticize them for not conforming to my standards (my wife eats both fish and meat and I married her anyway).
There is a dying breed of fishermen and hunters that, in their own special way, love and respect nature. But if you give it a little thought, you will undoubtedly see that it causes a lot of unnecessary suffering to creatures and I don't see the point: my limit, undoubtedly.

However, you really live in a blessed spot and not only for imaging the skies! The pictures you posted here are without any doubt the best I've seen so far. Thanks for sharing them with us and forgive my diversion.

Luca

April 26, 2004 04:12 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: DSLR Processing

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello James,

I personally use Astroart 3.0 which is very handy for these jobs, as you can easily align (even images obtained in alt-az mode), stack and apply flats and darks automatically by simply draggin the appropriate images in the Preprocessing window which performs all the necessary ops ad gives back a processed image.
The downside is that it is not freeware. Hope this helps somehow.

Ciao
Luca

April 28, 2004 10:04 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Finally tried a Toucam

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Very nice images Tom: welcome to the Toucam club!

Luca

May 6, 2004 09:36 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter 5-4-04

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Well done Jim!

Thanks and ciao
Luca

May 11, 2004 03:34 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

C/2001 Q4 Neat from Austria

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Great image Johannes,

and congratulations for your interesting article on june's S&T. I have a Finepix Pro S2 and I'm still trying to learn how to use it: knowing I have a pretty good camera to do what I'm trying to do has been a great encouragement to keep on trying.

Ciao and sincere congratulations again.

Luca

June 3, 2004 08:37 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Interlace lines?--Help!

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello Mike,

as noted by Wesley, I can't see any horizontal line pattern, nor any other line pattern.

Luca

June 8, 2004 03:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Venus Transit-Gent RUG, Belgium

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello Nico,

splendid pictures. Yours is the only set where I think one can see the tear drop effect (lower right image) and I did not see it in any other set of images so far. What kind of filter did you use for the full solar disk images? it seems to show a bit of corona around the sun: is it the processing that gives this effect? Congratulations again.

Luca

July 23, 2004 10:12 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

M13 image....

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Very nice picture Jake. Would you be so kind to give me a little more details (scope, total exposure time, ISO settings and so on).

Thanks for posting.

Ciao
Luca

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