Jupiter - 8/8/2009

Had a night of great to good seeing.

An animation of the red spot rotating into view is available here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2184&UserId=40

Equipment:
Optics - Meade 8" ACF, 3x TeleXtender, UV/IR
Mount - Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Camera - Philips ToUcam Pro II

Exposure Information:
1/33 second, 10fps, 120s AVI

Grade, align, stack and other processing in ImagesPlus 3.5

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Peter, that's an excellent Jupiter! I hope you don't mind that I modified your image a bit. First, stretched it to brighten, then set the black point to the background, followed by a couple of Lucy Richardson deconvolutions. There is a ton of detail in your image, nice work

Regards,
Steve

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Very nice detail!

Nice shot Peter. I like all the detail. The animation is cool too.

Andreas