[Mickoid (Michael)]

Reasonable seeing in Melbourne last night so I took a few video grabs of Jupiter before the clouds rolled in. It was evident that the seeing was improving the later it got as this was the last take of about eight and each one improved in quality.

I'm at least getting practice for Mars while this dust storm prevails, I just hope it clears in time for opposition.

This shot was taken with the unmodded Canon 550d on an EQ5 mount using my 8 inch f5 Newtonian. A 12.5mm eyepiece in conjunction with a Televue 2.5x Powermate was used to give an effective enlargement of 200X and shot in Video Crop mode at 50 fps. Workflow is my usual planetary processing - PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax and resize/colour correction in Photoshop.