[Dennis]

Hello,

After struggling with the image scale of Jupiter, the double transit and the ordinary seeing, I decided to hunt down a few doubles listed in Hartung’s 2nd Edition. This time, I plugged in the Vixen x2 Barlow and crossed my fingers.

The stack sizes varied from 8 to 26 frames from AVI’s of 1200 frames, an indication of the poor seeing. The colours have been pumped a little, by increasing the saturation in Photoshop. Where the magnitude variation between the companions made the fainter companion(s) almost invisible in the raw image, I used "Curves" in PS to brighten the fainter star(s), altering their brightness relationship.

The post processing in Registax and PS CS3 has really turned a sow’s ear into (almost) a silk purse.

Cheers

Dennis