Last night Effort

[anthony2302749]

The weather conditions were somewhat better here in Melbourne last night and the jet stream was around 65kmph, not perfect. While waiting for Jupiter to clear a tree near the observatory I spent some time working on collimation with the help of Metaguide, see attached image. By the end I was getting a suitable Airy disk.

On to Jupiter, with the collimation tweaked I was hopeful for some good results. Setup as usual is the 12" LX200, Televue 2x Powermate, ZWO UV/IR filter and ASI244mc.

I was fiddling around with the SharpCap and discovered I could get the capture rate up to 249fps. This gave me around 30000 frames in 2 minutes per run. The Image below is best of six image runs. Processed with AutoStakkes, RegiStax and tweaked with GIMP.

Happy with the results, looking forward to Wednesday night as the Jet Stream over Melbourne will be hopefully around the 45kmph mark.

Cheers

[Dave882]

Great result again Anthony. Looks like you’ve got the setup working quite well for you. Jupiter is quite low in the sky and without brilliant seeing is challenging to capture so you’ve done really well. Hope the conditions are good for you tonight- up here in Sydney it’s quite poor seeing conditions unfortunately.

[Anth10]

Nice clean image there Anthony.
You seem to have a good method there/ Jupiter is such an interesting planet/ so much surface detail to study. You’ve captured this well.
Anth