finally jupiter

[TJD (Trevor)]

hi all i took my best photo of jupiter its also my 4th
i used a nextimage webcam and a 2x barlow on my nexstar 6se

can any one tell me how to give it more detail and make it sharp?

thanks

tjd

[Clayton]

That is a very nice effort Trevor.
It looks like the histogram is not filled (= under exposed) You an adjust this in post processing with "Levels" but it is better to try and achieve this at capture. This is not always easy and can become a balancing act between too slow a shutter speed and enough light. Some times upping the gain can help, but you need to capture enough frames to counter the resulting increase in noise.

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

That is a really nice image with really good detail. I would for a start in GIMP select and feather around the planet then invert the selection. Then i would make adjustments to levels to get rid of the blue around. Contrast could do it.

I would then as much as possible use Registax and wavelets to attempt getting more detail. Possibly enlarge the image with Interpolation although I am experimenting with another feature in Registax for enlarging.

I wouldn't change the planet colouring as it usually doesn't provide a good match at the end. The colour you already have is very good, the blue tinge I believe could be viewing conditions that registax seems to leave behind, but it could also be camera white balance too.

What the hell I am still learning as well . Brilliant job.

[TJD (Trevor)]

thanks guys the bluish tinge is the cameras white balence but i dont know what to set it to any ideas?

i tried prossesing more and bought more detail but there a lot of noise
now

the larger one i prossesed in photoshop

thanks

trevor