A very quick grab shot of Jupiter taken last night as Jupiter was rising. Quickcam Pro 300 with IR filter through Celestron 8 with 2x barlow. There was a great deal of atmospheric abberation due to the low angle but its amazing that Registax managed to pull together a fair amount of detail.
Regards, Allan Gould
That is a very nice image of Jupiter for a low altitude, poor seeing "quick grab shot". Well done! There is much detail to be seen even thought the image is a little soft due to the conditions.
I hope you don't mind, I gave it a run through AstraImage, split into R/G/B, did a LR deconvolution on each channel and recombined, and then reduced the gamma.
The original is on the left, my version is on the right.
No that looks better than my original post. I didn't try too hard on the image as it was not the main aim of taking my scope out last night (I was using the spotting and main scope to do a polar alignment without doing a drift alignment and I tested it against Jupiter with a 9mm eyepiece to give 2.5 hr with Jupiter still smack in the centre of the eyepiece).
Regards, Allan
The GRS and festooning in the equatorial zones is very clear still.
