Jupiter hit and miss

[Aussie Dave]

Just thought I'd pop in briefly. This is my 3rd attempt (1st serious attempt) at Jupiter. The odds were against me last night with conditions and Jupiter being low in the eastern sky. Hoping to do much better in the future.

Single shot, Nikon D3100, ISO 100, 1/250th sec, Skywatcher Pro 150. I did try my 24 single shots of Jupiter in Registax but no go, the end result was no better than a single processed shot.

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Hi, there is a colour adjustment tool in Registax that can be used to align the channels, to remove the red fringe at top and blue tinge at bottom. You might find a stack can take a bit more sharpening after tweaking that, you've got the main bands there.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

+1 for the RGB align tool from Registax. That should improve matters

[Aussie Dave]

Cheers for that info guys, I'll look in to that

[Pete Presland]

Pretty good for a single frame some decent detail showing. As others have said an AVI stack will produce a much better image especially with the low alitiude.

[Aussie Dave]

Cheers Pete, the RGB align setting helped a lot as mentioned and I can now use this feature in future work. My image quality is very poor but I managed to bring out a little more detail but can't seem to push it past my final results below without getting artifacts and noise. Reducing noise reduces detail and trying to get back that detail brings back noise, it's a balancing act.

I'm just happy I managed to capture some detail to work with for the first time I'll try a video next I think. It seems to be the way to go.

Images below are of 1 single unprocessed shot, the last 2 are the best I can pull out of Registax and Paint.NET.

Single unprocessed shot

Processed in Registax6 and Paint

Processed in Registax6 and Paint