Hello all.
Here is my first attempt at Jupiter.
I took some video of Jupiter on December 2nd (the same time I was imaging Saturn which I posted earlier). I didn't think much of the avi's of Jupiter, mainly because Jupiter's altitude was only 34 degrees or so and the avi's didn't look too promising.
I decided just today to try processing them and I was a bit surprised at the result. They turned out a lot better than I had expected. One avi actually captured three of Jupiter's moons along with the Great Red Spot. One of the moons (Callisto) was in transit over the northern part of Jupiter's disc. (I believe the three moons from left to right are Europa, IO and Callisto).
I used 84 images of a one-minute, 1500 image run at 25 fps. Since Jupiter has more detailed cloud structure, I wanted to capture as much as possible in the shortest amount of time.
I added the capture info to the enclosed JPEG. I had to be careful not to over-process. The seeing was pretty good, but not what I had expected for that night. I was also bothered by heat waves from my furnace vent.
Clear and steady skies to all!
Derrick.
Here is my first attempt at Jupiter.
I took some video of Jupiter on December 2nd (the same time I was imaging Saturn which I posted earlier). I didn't think much of the avi's of Jupiter, mainly because Jupiter's altitude was only 34 degrees or so and the avi's didn't look too promising.
I decided just today to try processing them and I was a bit surprised at the result. They turned out a lot better than I had expected. One avi actually captured three of Jupiter's moons along with the Great Red Spot. One of the moons (Callisto) was in transit over the northern part of Jupiter's disc. (I believe the three moons from left to right are Europa, IO and Callisto).
I used 84 images of a one-minute, 1500 image run at 25 fps. Since Jupiter has more detailed cloud structure, I wanted to capture as much as possible in the shortest amount of time.
I added the capture info to the enclosed JPEG. I had to be careful not to over-process. The seeing was pretty good, but not what I had expected for that night. I was also bothered by heat waves from my furnace vent.
Clear and steady skies to all!
Derrick.
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