Jupiter

Jupiter was the first planet that came within range of my scope. Being low in the south west while the evenings were still light made things a little tricky but with my son Dan working the capture controls we managed to get lots of images that all look the same.

Christopher Go has set the standard for imaging Jupiter and I can’t wait for it to be high in the night sky again to try out my new camera. I think I may have to wait until 2008 before I get a chance though!

  


Jupiter Scope: Skywatcher 250mm
Focal Length: 2400mm (2x barlow)
Camera: Trust Spacec@m
Date: 24/08/2006 20:46
Note: Io is just visible
k3ccd_0002a.jpg Scope: Skywatcher 250mm
Focal Length: 3600mm (3x barlow)
Camera: Trust SpaceC@m
Date: 18-07-2007 22:30
Note: Only 16° above the horizon
Stacked and wavelets in Registax
k3ccd_0002b.jpg Scope: Skywatcher 250mm
Focal Length: 3600mm (3x barlow)
Camera: Trust SpaceC@m
Date: 18-07-2007 22:30
Note: Taken from the same batch as the image above. I changed the exposure on the moons to bring them out and desaturated the image which was very red. The images were taken using a Baader skyglow filter, but no IR blocking.
k3ccd_0003_b.jpg Scope: Skywatcher 250mm
Focal Length: 3600mm (3x barlow)
Camera: Trust SpaceC@m
Date: 18-07-2007 22:30
Note: I split the previous AVI into LRGB using K3CCDTools, then processed each colour as seperate AVIs. This image is the BLUE sequence and has more detail than the other colours, especially red which is over exposed.

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