My first Jupiter, 31/5/06

[middy]

I gave Jupiter a quick go last night. Camera on tripod up against the eyepiece. I had a lot of difficulty focusing properly. I also couldn't use the self timer function because by the time it had counted down 10 seconds, Jupiter had flown across the FOV. When I get my mount that attaches to the focusing tube then hopefully I can use the timer.

8" Dob @ 120x
4 images @ 1/30s
10 images @ 1/60s
Stacked and prcoessed in Registax

The GRS was just going out of view. (9:00 pm, 31/5/06)

[[1ponders]]

Aha...another candidate for the dark side :evil2:

Great start Middy. I think you would probably find that 90%+ of imagers started out with either an afocal of the the moon or Jupiter. Pretty hard without tracking though :P

[Robert_T]

Hi Middy, what a great start, well done:thumbsup: I don't know how you manage to get a recognisable Jupiter from afocal... I never managed it.

cheers,

[ving]

onya! looks better than my afocals :)

[allan gould]

Really excellent effort with your equipment. Its always disappointing to see the GRS just going around to the other side when you image.

[Dennis]

Very nice Andrew. You've nailed the GRS and blue festoons quite clearly for such a Heath Robinson set up - great work indeed, something to be rightly pleased with.

Cheers

Dennis

[astro_south]

Nice one Andrew. Great start.......let me know if you want to borrow the Toucam for a night or two ;) You remember the fun we had last time you came around :D

[middy]

I remember :) I didn't see you post any images from that night so I guess they didn't turn out too well. :(

Thanks for the offer on the Toucam. The laptop we have probably wouldn't be able to run the software. It is a slooooowww P3. I think it is a 300 mHz (yes, that's milli Hz not mega Hz) :lol:

[Lester]

Good one Andrew,

Thrashes the pants off of my first Jupiter taken back in early 1980's.

If anything I would say the bright areas are a bit over exposed, so you could shorten your exposure time which would sharpen the image.

[asimov]

Nice one Middy! :)