Reckon I’ve snapped my best Jupiter last night!
After an extremely frustrating couple of nights trying to grab some planets in what should have been good seeing, and only getting flat, soft results and some weird artefacts on processing- it finally dawned on me I haven’t checked the collimation of my scope for a couple weeks. Low and behold it was substantially out for some reason
so after giving myself a few verbal kicks up the butt got it adjusted. TAKE 2 - and looks like just in time for some really good seeing - probably the best I’ve had this year. I’ve got a stack of data to process from a good window of about 1hr but here’s the first one out.
Really pleased how it came out- and can spot some features I’ve never noticed before. A new one for me were the 5 small and 1 larger blue storm circles in the southern equatorial band just east of the GRS. Not showing the best on the downsized version tho…
10” LX50 on the G11
ASI224mc captured with ASIAIR Pro
1.8x Barlow and Baader UV-IR block
ZWO ADC
60sec
10ms exposures @ 275gain
AS!3 - 50%
1.5 drizzle
Registax6 for wavelet processing
PSexpress
Thanks for looking
Dave