Jupiter

[Nino (John Peacock)]

Hello Guys, this is my first effort with my new 10 inch LX200 and orion 5mp star shoot camera,question is this the best I can expect or should my photos be better? Cheers John

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Hi John
It is way better than my first try at Jove, Time and practice and you will improve, Keep up the good work.

cheers.

[Nino (John Peacock)]

Originally Posted by Saturn%5

Hi John
It is way better than my first try at Jove, Time and practice and you will improve, Keep up the good work.

cheers.

Thanks Graeme, I will try again in a few nights when the moon is not in the sky, I fear it may have washed out some detail, plus I need to make my pic brighter.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Originally Posted by Nino

Thanks Graeme, I will try again in a few nights when the moon is not in the sky, I fear it may have washed out some detail, plus I need to make my pic brighter.

Hi John - that's a very reasonable shot for your first attempt with new equipment.

I doubt very much that the Moon would have any real impact on images of a bright object like Jupiter. There are a lot of different factors that contribute to image quality: focus, seeing, elevation of the object, focal length being used and of course your imaging capture and processing work-flow.

You may already know this but most of the good planetary imagers stack hundreds or even thousands of individual frames to produce a final image. If you share some more details of your process then I'm sure someone on here (with much better knowledge than I) can give you some good tips to help you improve. Sharing of information is one of the great things about a forum like this.

[Nino (John Peacock)]

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Hi John - that's a very reasonable shot for your first attempt with new equipment.

I doubt very much that the Moon would have any real impact on images of a bright object like Jupiter. There are a lot of different factors that contribute to image quality: focus, seeing, elevation of the object, focal length being used and of course your imaging capture and processing work-flow.

Most of the good planetary imagers stack hundreds or even thousands of individual frames to produce a final image. If you share some more details of your process then I'm sure someone on here can give you some tips which will help you improve.

Hi Pete, I think it is my prose sing Skills have let me down, I used registax and I thought I stacked 400 images but that is not certain as I had no end of trouble, newbie at work. I have watched tutorials on utube and read many web pages and all I got was more confused. I will try and try again till I get there. Cheers John

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Originally Posted by Nino

Hi Pete, I think it is my prose sing Skills have let me down, I used registax and I thought I stacked 400 images but that is not certain as I had no end of trouble, newbie at work. I have watched tutorials on utube and read many web pages and all I got was more confused. I will try and try again till I get there. Cheers John

No worries - I've had a fair bit of trouble with Registax myself so definitely feel your pain there.
Applying the wavelets at the end seems to make all the difference (once you've gotten that far) but there sure was a lot of hit and miss for me.