First ever Jupiter

[lquinlan]

I got the SPC880 webcam on Tuesday, flashed it on Wednesday evening to SPC900NC and gave it it's first test in the wee hours of Thursday 22nd September. My dob base mods were ready, lovely and smooth tracking now. Excitement was building.

It was not the perfect night by any means and my observation session did not start well! Long story short, I managed to capture three hazy AVIs between the clouds and then got stuck in to Registax. After a lot of tweaking, it rewarded me with something I'm pretty proud of for starters. Even got a moon!

Can't wait for better nights! Practice makes perfect (as close as the variables allow) as they say...

[bigal1]

Great first attempt can see quite a bit of detail and a moon even with haze , i bet when you get some good conditions you will get some very nice images well done .

[nightfisher]

thats really good

[Clayton]

Congratulations on a very fine start

[Tassydevil]

Nice work for your first go.

[lquinlan]

Thanks very much for the kind feedback.

Nothing beats seeing it with your own eyes but a photo momento can be cool too.

I'm hoping my 'AstroPanel' android app forecast (great app by the way - highly recommended) is correct and I get a chance to see (and capture hopefully) Jupiter's red dot for the first time.

[spaceboy]

That's a great attempt given your using a dob and the conditions weren't perfect.

[lquinlan]

Thanks again.

I think my next 'astro-photographic' related investment will be an autofocuser.

I realise focus is king when imaging and I waste quite a few 5sec FOV passes tweaking it by hand, which causes the inevitable crazy shakes. Valuable time!

The skywatcher one seems a bit big. Before I go down the route of possibly making my own, does anyone know of a slimmer one?

[Gadget]

Very nice image got some nice detail there

Kevin

[lquinlan]

After reading through a few threads and a bit more googling, I'm going to make my own focuser based around a servo motor.

Really looking forward to getting the chances to capture the rest of the solar system now.