Spotting Jupiter

[Camelopardalis]

Folks,

No bouts of very good seeing around Brisbane of late, but there's still some detail that can be squeezed out of the bands on a less than perfect night. A blanket of cloud - invisible to the BOM's IR map - drew in just 10 minutes later.

Europa even makes a fleeting appearance as the bright-ish smear in the mid-right of the northern hemisphere, I'd missed the shadow transit only minutes before :sadeyes: ah well, it was better than the cloud riddled nights of last week.

Cheers,
Dunk

[RickS]

Nice one, Dunk!

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks Rick! Now if only we could have a few more good nights :lol:

[ags_]

Lovely image, glad you had some decent seeing, clouds and more clouds here,

cheers, Phil

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks Phil! Not bad for a small bore :lol: still room for improvement if the weather would play nice.

[AstroKoncar]

That's an awesome shot Dunk, really enjoying the details.

[LaughingBeagles]

Lovey shot mate. Just lovely detail.

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks Gavrilo and Peter!

[Anth10]

Brilliant Jupiter shot, awesome.

[blinky]

Hey Dunk nice capture! Just wondering what your setup is? your comment about "small bore" caught my interest as I use an 8" newt. If i could get a result like this I would be pretty stoked!

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks Anthony!



Thanks Leigh!

This was taken with my C11 (Edge HD, but that part is irrelevant), on my NEQ6 with a ZWO ASI224MC and Televue Powermate 2.5x (which operates at about ~2x by my calculations).

It's really all about the conditions...we need good-great seeing for results better than this IMO. My small bore was taken with essentially the same setup (although on its nexstar mount) on a night that was predicted to be "average". On a night with better seeing, it'd no doubt give better results...how much better? I don't know...with a choice of scopes I'm (almost) always going to go for the big gun if the night looks promising :lol:

I encourage you to go for it, 8" is more than enough to get pleasing results. Aim for 4m or more focal length and the image scale gets more interesting :D but you may want to practice at native focal length to get the hang of things, as mounts and controls get really twitchy once you start bumping up the focal length and planetary cameras generally have tiny little sensors.

On the subject of sensors, I'm very pleased with the 224...low noise, high sensitivity, high frame rate...what's not to like :D