My first Jupiter

[samir_ansari]

Well this officially my second attempt however my first was so poor it wasn't even worth the upload rate.

My focus was quite a bit off in this one, need to get a bahtinov mask!

[DaveGarland]

That's an awful lot better than my first attempt last night Samir. I also managed to walk into my patio door on the way in too I'll be very pleased when I can get a pic like that. Well done What did you use?

Dave.

[Space Cowboy]

Very good attempt! I reckon your gamma needs to be lower and/or gain higher to stop those onion rings. What focal length was this?

[samir_ansari]

Thanks for the kind words and advice guys. Dave if it makes you feel better this was my ACTUAL first attempt at Jupiter earlier this year:

So, quite a difference once you get a bit of practice!

For my latest Jupiter I used my skymax 127mm (1500mm focal length), a 2.5x barlow and 740k toUcam

EDIT: Forgot to mention I used a 2x Drizzle in Registax on the image sequence hence the scale

[samir_ansari]

This is a reprocess with the same footage and scaled down to 75% . In this case I would say smaller is better!

[26Left]

Excellent attempt. Really good colour and detail. I'm not sure about a Bahtinov mask. Great for DSO imaging, but I tried it last week for imaging Jupiter. I used the mask to focus on Deneb and then slewed across to Jupiter. After a few runs, I doubted my previous focussing and refocussed on Jupiter. I think I make it sharper and the resulting images seemed to bear this out.

I was using my refractor, so it was not down to mirror movement.

I'd be interested in your results if you go that way.

[Tassydevil]

Very nice shots keep them coming.

[bm1980]

nice captures i think the first image looks more natural, i would try and resize it,

Regards

Ben

[ComputerPhysicsLab]

Being a second attempt it is really very good, in my opinion. Keep sending more.

[ScubaMike]

Not so shabby Samir. I have not managed to capture anything with as many cloud bands.

Dave, did you get any footage of you walking into the patio door?

[theodoros1978]

lately, i started experimenting on jupiter as well and i can tell your images ar far better that my first attempts, lol

[DaveGarland]

Sadly no ScubaMike, just a greasy imprint on the glass for me to clean off My kids and their friends did video me falling for their electric shock pen gag the other day though so that will probably end up on you tube. The little darlings also electrocuted my wife also. Bless them