Last night I was suckered into thinking the cloud had gone away so I wanted to try and capture the little red spot. The first was taken while Jupiter was ~20 degrees above the horizon and so the seeing waS AWEFUL. But then high cloud rolled in and obscured Jupiter. I cranked up the gain etc and managed to get a few images thru the cloud. What amazed me was that the seeing really settled down but very little light getting through. If only there was no cloud the amount of detail was amazing as seen through a 7.5mm eyepiece. Think the LRS is just visible in the band above GRS (in the middle?)
8" SCT, 2x barlow, 320x240, 5fps, Registax3.
Last edited by allan gould; 09-04-2006 at 02:08 PM.
Hi Allan, I've experienced this phenomenon before too. High thin cloud comes in and seems to settle he seeing very nicely and reduce glare. Works beautifully for visual, but does tend to "smear" a little for imaging though your second shot below is a cracker, heaps of detail and great colour.
I ws imaging Saturnd earlier during the poor seeing period, but didn't have the stomach to do batel with cloud and don't have the horizon for Jupiter until much later.
