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[romephius (Luke)]

G'day All,

This is my first real attempt at capturing Jupiter.... I still have no real idea of what I'm doing with what I've got. Any advice is welcome...

[Larryp (Laurie)]

You've got the cloud bands, Luke-great first effort! What scope, camera etc are you using?

[romephius (Luke)]

I got a cheapy setup to begin with. A saxon 102mm Musk.... Cassegrain. Hooking up my canon Eos 550D.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Hi Luke it looks good to me, Jupiter has been hard to capture with the jetstream being quite active, is it a single image or is it from a stacked video?

Cheers

[romephius (Luke)]

It is a single image, taken in TV mode on the camera, using live view.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

well done , using such a long focal length using a Mak and , as Larry said , you got Bands ! thats awsome .
Better than mine .
I cant offer advice , only encouragment , keep it up Luke .
Brian.

[Shark Bait (Stu)]

I am wondering if you picked up one of Jupiter's moons. See bottom left of the cropped and modified copy of your image.

What date and time was your original image taken?

[romephius (Luke)]

I took the shot last night... around 23:00. In the wider angle views 3 of the moons were visible... but, I chose the tighter shot to try and get some detail of the planet.

[Shark Bait (Stu)]

Screen grab from Starry Night for Monday 5th Nov, 2300 hrs.

If the above information is correct then it looks like you have managed to capture Europa as well.