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Old 15-03-2008, 01:55 PM
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Jupiter 15/03/08

This is probably the worst imaging run of Jupiter I have had yet. This is only the third to date so not is all bad.

I was expecting the seeing to be above average but I was terribly wrong. I firstly thought that the collimation was off producing a blurry image. The day before I had installed Bob's knobs and had set the collimation to what I thought was pretty well perfect. I double checked on a star and found that the scope was in almost perfect collimation.

Analysing the AVI's, I was saddened to find the conditions to be worse that I first thought. There were only a couple of AVI's that were worthy of processing.

Another thing, I was wondering why there were onion rings are present on these images. I positive I didn't under or over exposure any AVI's.

Although of the horrible conditions, I will post a few images from this morning. All were taken with the DMK shooting at 60fps with a 1/60s exposure time.

1. Jupiter and Ganymede

2. Jupiter

3. Jupiter, Ganymede, Io and Europa. (left to right)

What was I doing wrong?
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