Jupiter Feb 6th Double shadow transit

[RichardJ]

The clouds cleared and I got to see a double shadow transit by Europa and Callisto last night. Also got the see Europa egress from transiting. Lovely night's observing :D

Here is a quick shot taken with my trusty 6-inch Newtonian.

RichardJ :)

[icytailmark]

nice job.i saw it last night even tho the seeing conditions were really crap

[ehgore1978]

sweet mate. may i ask what camera, telescope setupyou used to get this im using a 10" black diamond skywatcher and a 5d mark 3 canon and still cant get this type of quality

[malau]

Hey Richard, long time no see. How are you doing lately? Now I got my telescope, drive motor..etc and took some nebula photos. btw nice photo

[RichardJ]

Hi Scott,

My scope was a 6-inch F8. I used a x 2 barlow and took a 20 sec video with my ZWO ASI120MC colour camera for the disc and 10 sec video for the moons. Processed in AS!2 and combined in photoshop. The whole process took just a few minutes. Its been hard to get a decent larger image of Jupiter as it is low in the sky and the weather has not co-operated. Saturn is virtually overhead in the early morning from my place, so hoping for some decent images.

I've got pleasing photos of Jupiter with my Canon 450D but I get much better results with video. Hope this helps.

RichardJ

[RichardJ]

Hi Malau,

All good. Work has just been crazy :screwy:
Glad you got a scope and good luck with imaging.
Hope to see you up at Crago.

Richard.