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Stunning, amazing images!
Maybe a stupid question but how do you compensate for the lack of brightness in the moons and the planet being excessively blown out to capture the moons?
I understand overexposing the planet to capture the light reflected off the moons and take separate frames of sufficiently exposed moons and correctly exposed planets.
I have images of both Saturn and Jupiter with moons included in their correct positions but requires excessive overexposure of the planets to capture the light of the moons in separate frames and when cut to paste the moons in with the correct exposure stack of the planets there always seems to be remnants of the light. Maybe its a "P.I.C.N.I.C." issue, problem in chair not in computer?
I don't do the cutting and pasting, I'm too blind and too stupid, my son does that in photoshop for me.
I don't share my images here, everyone would just laugh but I play with what I have and like my tiny specks of planets, mostly taken through a 152mm Skywatcher Achromat with my old Nikon D80. I haven't tried with the full frame camera yet, the little dots will only get smaller.
In saying that I was recently given an older firewire version of the ImagingSource colour camera by a very kind fellow member, which captures frames at 640x480 (and I've figured out how to shoot AVI instead of BMP images) and have an 8" Newt and ED 2 times Barlow and I'm keen to try for Jupiter if these bloody clouds EVER disappear. I recently used the camera for some lunar shots through my little 80mm Megrez (original semi APO (whatever that's supposed to mean)) only mounted on it's original travel tripod with severe wear in the head and I could only capture very small amounts of detail at a time so I'm guessing it will bring Jupiter up nicely on the 8" Newtonian with the ED Barlow.
I've been playing with this stuff since the 80s with 35mm film but never had the finances to buy great equipment but I'm happy and work with what I have. If I could get images 100th the quality of what I see here I'd be extremely happy.
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