This is my first light image out of my new telescope, a 12" GSO newt on an EQ6. Used the 3x barlow instead of the 5x due to too much drift (no time to drift align!).
The larger image scale and light gathering of the 12" (over my old 10") is definitely noticeable! Unfortunately I overexposed the green channel at the STropZ, which had good transmission on that morning!
Seeing was quite good, and Jupiter was at 46° altitude during this capture. It was the best out of 7 avi's captured between 5:20am - 6:00am local time.
Some good detail is visible, including a red bar and white spots in the SSTB, and another red bar/spot in the SEB just past the meridian. There's also a few white spots on both the top and bottom borders of the NEB. There also appears to be a white spot at the bottom (north) edge of the GRS, and the usual darker patch inside the GRS.
Each channel was captured for approx 45 seconds, at 15fps (1/15s exposure). 330 frames of each channel were stacked in registax, mild wavelets, and LR deconvolution and recombine into RGB in AstraImage.
In Photoshop, gave high-pass filter for additional sharpening, adjusted the contrast/curves and final presentation.
Very nice Mike. It's great to see you putting the 12" through its paces. What do you do with all that free time now, whilst imaging, with the EQ6 tracking etc.
chatting with Paul Haese when i visited him a few weekends back and it was funny to think that the old 640 x 480 may not be big enough when he gets the 18" with increased focal length.
It is sort of awesome that the 12" mirror means that wonderful piece of equipment, the 5x powermate may be put away, COS THE IMAGE IS SOOOOOOOOO LARGE
Sounds like a skynx 2.0 is one the cards with 1024 x 768 resolution......go on mike, you know you want one!!!
Jupiter + Rising GRS - 3rd Feb final
