Hey guys.
This image was taken on Friday night, 20th May 2005, in very good seeing.
It's my best Jupiter image ever, i'm really happy with it! I think the combination of fixing the pinched secondary mirror and refining collimation has helped wonders.. and the good seeing just topped it all off. There's much more fine detail in this image than I've ever captured before, including brown and white spots in the SSTZ and NNTZ, a small amount of detail in the GRS and the disturbance following the GRS.
Details:
- 10" dob (no tracking) with ToUcam Pro 840K
- Capture settings: 5fps, 1/33s exp., no gain, 0 gamma
- Seeing: 7.5/10, Transparency: 8.5/10
- FL approx 3100mm, with 2.4x barlow pulled out and ToUcam pulled out.
Processing:
- Approx 100 frames (out of 253) stacked in registax
- The top row processed in registax and photoshop (unsharp mask)
- The bottom row processed in registax, AstraImage and photoshop
- The left column is at original FL, the middle column is 1.3x upsized in registax (Mitchell method), and the right column is the middle image at 70% of the size.
Here it is, comments and feedback always welcomed.
