[derkraken (John)]

Thanks for the comments.

I took a 9 or 10 second video, 277 frames, and used autostakkert to align and stack the best 55% of the frames, then adjusted the wavelets, gamma, contrast and brightness in Registax.

Visually, I could see a softer, lower contrast version of what is in the final image - I've attached a single frame from the video, which is pretty much what it looked like on the camera's lcd. It was not by any means the clearest view I have had of Jupiter. The last few nights I had been out, however, the seeing had been far worse.

This year Jupiter is quite low in the sky, and I find most nights I do not have a very good view of it. Last year was much better!

I also have a 15mm Superview. I haven't looked at Jupiter with it for a while, but I'm pretty sure on axis the view was fine with a 2x barlow, on a night when the seeing was good.

Hope that helps.