Afocal Jupiter and accidental shadow transit

[Inmykombi]

I was practising the Afocal Method on Jupiter tonght in pretty poor seeing, when I noticed a shadow transit so I kept on "clicking away "

I tried a new Samsung compact camera instead of my usual Canon.
I think the Canon has the edge over this one, but time will tell.
I also used an afocal bracket which attaches top the eyepiece to hold the camera steady.
My 10 inch LX200 through 20 mm eyepiece 1/2 digital zoom on the camera and a little processing to drop the brightness down a bit.

I'll keep practising to see how far I can go with this method in good seeing perhaps.

Thx for looking.

Geoffro.

[jjjnettie]

Not too shabby at all Geoffro, concidering how bad the seeing was.:thumbsup:
There's detail between the bands which is good.
Nice nab on the shadow transit as well.:D
Try not to use the digital zoom, it can/will degrade your final image.

[Inmykombi]

Not too shabby at all Geoffro, concidering how bad the seeing was.:thumbsup:
There's detail between the bands which is good.
Nice nab on the shadow transit as well.:D
Try not to use the digital zoom, it can/will degrade your final image.


No Zoom....Geee whiz, a man has no secrets........

I have tried many different ways, and you are spot on with that advice. This one was the best of a bad bunch in poor seeing. The cloud cover also made it difficult. Anyway its all fun.

Thx for looking.

Geoffro.

[jjjnettie]

Optical zoom is fine, great, perfect, couldn't do without it.
JUST NOT DIGITAL ZOOM.