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Originally Posted by Nino
Thanks Graeme, I will try again in a few nights when the moon is not in the sky, I fear it may have washed out some detail, plus I need to make my pic brighter.
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Hi John - that's a very reasonable shot for your first attempt with new equipment.
I doubt very much that the Moon would have any real impact on images of a bright object like Jupiter. There are a lot of different factors that contribute to image quality: focus, seeing, elevation of the object, focal length being used and of course your imaging capture and processing work-flow.
You may already know this but most of the good planetary imagers stack hundreds or even thousands of individual frames to produce a final image. If you share some more details of your process then I'm sure someone on here (with much better knowledge than I) can give you some good tips to help you improve. Sharing of information is one of the great things about a forum like this.