First Jupiter

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I made the supreme effort and got up at 2am to catch Jupiter.
The camera dewed up immediately, and I had to open it up and dry it in front of the fan for an hour before it would come good again.
3am I was out there again, and this is what I came up with.
I really thought I'd get more detail than this. But it's a start.
I managed to stack about 965 frames. Being lazy I only took out the very worst ones, leaving Registax to short through the rest.
Maybe tomorrow I'll seive through them a bit more thoroughly and see if that will improve the photo.
Any tips on imaging Jupiter will be welcome.

Cheers
Jeanette

[asimov (John)]

Thats a good start, well done for draggin' yourself outa bed at that time lol.

Can't help you with any tips re: capturing joop with a vid camera. You have all the major details in that image, well done.

[davidpretorius]

there is good detail there, short of image scale being bigger, there is no more basic detail to get???

i think it is a very good shot, similiar to what is viewable thru the 6.5mm eyepiece!!!

[iceman (Mike)]

How long did you capture for, jeanette?

David, I've seen Jupiter look MUCH much better than that at that magnification. It all depends on the seeing and the altitude of Jupiter. and of course, collimation etc.

[Robert_T]

Hi jeanette,

You're already a step ahead of me cos you got out of bed and I didn't .

Tips
- there's some fringing on once side that might be due to offset of the colour channels. If you haven't already, when you get to the wavelets bit of the Registax process (and this is only on Registax 3) there is a tab on the right called RGB align - hit that and push the "estimate" button and it will align the colour channels better. Usually helps a lot.

- other than the above, there's the usual things of collimation etc. Focus I've found (not surprisingly) is Very important and I often spend a fair bit of time on it.

- if your camera was all dewed up, how were the scopes optics? - nothing will fuzz or soften and image better than a dewy scope.

All that aside, you've done well to capture the main features - look forward to seeing what you can get from a little more experimentation and culling with the avi you have.

cheers,

Top Stuff! jjjnettie

excellent for a first attempt. I think the colour fringing maybe due to atmospheric
dispersion and may not necessarily from collimation errors. Meaning we have alot of
moisture or humidity in the air that has been giving us all this rain lately. Still cant
get a clear shot at the sky here, at least the ground is drying up.

Anyways excellent start! look forward to seeing more!!

Btw, what sort of camera were you using?

regards,CS

[Striker (Tony)]

Well done Jeanette....thats a great start for a first attempt.

Gee you guys/girls are keen getting up at these times....I am snoring by 10:30pm

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I used the 12.5mm ep with the barlow. Once Jupiter starts rising at a more reasonable hour, the dew factor will hopefully be gone. With any luck, it won't be too hard to make the next pic better.