Muddy Jupiter

[Jove]

I was trying out a Bahtinov mask for the first time last night. I focussed on Vega and adjusted the image until it was symmetrical, then slewed over to Jupiter. On screen the image looked really good and I was chuffed not to be having to tweak the focussing (a chore with my bouncy mount and a Mak focussing knob). After stacking about 500 of 2000 frames, though, the image was rather muddy and soft. Seeing was poor, but is there anything I can do to rectify this?

I tried unsharp mask in Photoshop, which helped a little, but I'm a bit disappointed with the overall level of detail.

Thanks

[earth titan]

Looks pretty good to me.

How did you get on with the mask? I'm considering getting one as I'm struggling with focus.

[ChrisEdu]

Looks pretty decent to me, especially as you've got two moons to show. What frame rate / settings did you use?

[bigal1]

I rekon your focus is more or less spot on by looking at the moons , i'd think its more likley to be unstable atmosphere causing the loss of detail / sharpness but still its a nice image