I was fairly hesitant about posting this image, the colour is out of whack...mainly because I turned the saturation down to 20% to try to counteract the purple banding you get when using an achro refractor.
And I thought mars & Saturn were hard to get Jupiter + achro is going to require lots of thought & experimenting to get right!
The detail is great though John.
From memory didn't you have a "Fringe Killer" type filter you were using in other shots to help the acro with the colour?
Yes mate, the fringe killer basically just adds a green hue to the overall colour, I can do that manually by playing with the white balance in the toucam software. A fringe killer might be ok for visual but in this case it does nothing. Just another piece of glass cutting down on the light received.
Yes I use an APO 2X barlow & extension tube. (prime focus)
I will be ignoring the purple bands I see on the laptop & use full saturation & see if I can alter it later in editing software later me thinks.
Actually, what I should be doing is STOP camparing my images to you reflector boys! To get reflector type images in an achromatic is virtually impossible, the sooner I (& others) accept that fact the better!
And this one is my original posted above (without a fringe killer) before any processing has taken place (after stacking/waveletts etc. in registax of course)
Taking the avi sequence is easy...it's the processing of the final after registax is where the fun begins lol.
Once I get the 12.5" reflector up & running, imaging will be like falling off a log backwards.
Asi, this is really very good. You're right it's a bit hard to compete with the 10inch reflector guys and gals with a 6 inch acro, but you can be proud at what you manage squeeze out of that lump of glass. The fine detail here is fantastic and way better than what I managed last year using the same setup. I had exactly the same purple bands etc just like yours, but not the same level of detail.
Jupiter + achro is going to require lots of thought & experimenting to get right!
