First attempt at Jupiter

[Weebz]

Not ideal conditions, I woke up late and didn't give the tube enough time to cool properly.

Used the x2 barlow that came with the scope + SPC900.

Gives me a benchmark to measure against for next time though

[ScubaMike]

Looks nice to me.

not bad for a first attempt. I hope to match it with my first attempt

[tyler_jrb]

wow very nice, both lines visable, though it is so hard to get a good shot right now. id say a good capture!

[Adamski]

That's well good. I've got exactly the same kit as you and can't wait to use it. Jupiter is just a bit too unsociable for me at the moment though.

[redgiantjohn]

Nice image of jupiter:) am I right in thinking its visible at about 4am at the moment?

[riklaunim]

Good starting point. You can play with some (auto) color balance options to get rid of the yellow color.

[bigal1]

Excellent first attempt well done

[Space Cowboy]

Good effort! As Rik says auto balance RGB in Registax should sort out the yellow hue.

[Astroblagger]

Thats a good start much better than my first effort, jupiter should be higher in Aug so you should improve on that effort.

[Crunchard]

Good first capture that one.

Thought I could see a moon, till I realised my laptop screen needed a wipe!

[Weebz]

Thanks for the comments. Had another go last night and think this came out slightly better. I'm having trouble focusing and tracking manually, will have to invest in motors I think.

[asteele3]

Jupiter is out at about 00:30 in the morning, although, it will be low down in eastern sky! You should have seen my attempt at trying to get a photo of it last night! I was balancing the camera on top of the tripod half way up my stairs on my window ledge!! Amazing photo though, well done! ;-D Try and get one of the moons next time!

[beamish]

"I'm having trouble focusing and tracking manually, will have to invest in motors I think."

You ought to be really pleased with that given what you had to do. Cracking start .

If you have "PS elements" or "PS", you could try splitting the channels and working on each individually prior to putting them back together. Waaay better than my 1st effort I can tell you. Try and wait for the planet to reach 25 degrees plus in altitude too as that will really help in reducing atmospheric effects.

Look fwd to alot more over the next few months- then you can look back at this one and make a direct comparison.

[Steve Wright]

Well done, have you tried a bahtinov mask to aid focusing, I made my own from here astrojargon - Bahtinov Focusing Mask Generator: Overview

[mike_777]

coming on a treat

[spaceboy]

Not a bad image at all. Nice size and colour. I'd like to bet if you was well handy with registax you could get an even better image from the data collected.