Jupiter with a Questar 3.5, round two

Hi all -

When I look at all of these terrific images I'm a bit intimidated, but here goes anyhow .

In April I posted three images I took with my Questar 3.5 from Florida. I had been only at planetary imaging for a month or so, but was blessed by the incredible Florida skies and the images weren't too bad.

I thought I'd give Jupiter another try this summer, even though at 46 degrees north (in northern Wisconsin, US) Jupiter is a bit too low for results to be very good.

In any event, seeing last night was quite good so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm sure with more time I could improve upon the processing, but these images roughly capture what I was able to see through the eyepiece.

For comparison, here below is the link to the images I took earlier this year (which at least to me were better).

http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=519969&poll_id=&news_id=&page=

Comments welcome!

Paul Schroeder

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Here's the larger Jupiter from last night -- this was taken with a Lumenera camera, through the eyepiece port of the Questar with the barlow engaged. I captured approximately 1700 frames; this is the best 500, processed in Registax and slightly adjusted in Photoshop.

Thanks,

Paul

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Great Picture. How does Jupiter look visually through a Questar 3.5?

Dean

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Paul, nice shots, even though I can tell that Seeing is playing games with your images, specially on the second one.

Any plans on coming down to Florida? 8)