Jupiter at 3:45am

[iceman (Mike)]

I got up early this morning to image Jupiter, another target I hadn't tackled with the ToUcam yet.

He was getting nice and high, seeing was pretty good, much better than the night before when I did the moon.

I started taking a few avi's, wondering why it was so blue, and forgot I had the IR filter in, so I took that out and started imaging again and wondered why it was going dim and dull in the preview screen. I looked up and saw the morning clouds heading from the south.

So unfortunately I only ended up with 2 x 10s avi's of jupiter, and I processed these in greyscale because I didn't like the blue colour from the IR filter (I gotta return that thing).

Anyway here's a stack of about 40 frames with wavelets processed in registax 3.



Looking forward to tackling him again next time, hopefully i'll be able to get more frames and I might even look up when the GRS is transitting and try and capture it too.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Have you perhaps got the contrast up a little high ?

[ving (David)]

well done again
starkler is correct, you contrast seems a little high. still my banding isnt as pronounced as that. nice bands!

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks Ving.

I actually reduced contrast and brightness while processing.. the NEB (northern equatorial belt) (the one on the bottom of my image) is really really dark this year.. quite a few people have been mentioning it on the CN forums.. it's coming out dark red in their images too.

I'll pay close attention to my processing next time I capture Jupiter, but I'm pretty sure I reduced contrast not enhanced it.

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Hey Mike
Not a bad effort, As the others said, But im sure you will get there, Keep'em coming.

[rumples riot]

Good shot Mike, getting some good shots now. Keep em coming

Paul