My Best Jupiter so far.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hi all,

My best Jupiter so far. Taken in a very small window of 7-8/10 seeing. Occasionally a 9 would pop in and you could see detail on the raw frame. Taken with a 200mm f6 newtonian. Asi120mm. 145mm extensiom tube. With firecapture. Processed using AS!2, Registax. I took 50 x 60sec videos at 56fps, this was one of the first ones.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Nicely done from a very modest telescope

[Dennis]

Good work Andrew along with an impressive image scale.

Cheers

Dennis

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thaks guys,

Still trying to work out why Io is a line and not resolved as a star or disk... might be the stacking process maybe?

[astronobob (Bob)]

Awesome Andrew - Jolly Jupiters

Were there any alignment points on Io - depend stack prog, ? Assume all planet stack prog should have align points

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by Astroman

Thaks guys,

Still trying to work out why Io is a line and not resolved as a star or disk... might be the stacking process maybe?

Hi Andrew

The “elongated” Io is likely due to the orbital motion of the moon during the image capture process. I once recorded a 90 sec AVI and Io was elongated and I could just detect a smearing of finer details on the disc of Jupiter due to the rapid rotation of the planet.

I understand that the more advanced planetary astophotographers use an application called WinJUPOS to allow them to “de-rotate” long AVI’s so that the surface features are not smeared.

Cheers

Dennis.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Yep, cheers Dennis, your onto it, id say

[Stonius (Markus)]

Does the fast frame rate stop blur from atmospheric 'boiling' during capture? Is that a factor in your thinking?

Cheers

Markus