First attempt at Jupiter with webcam

[prbaxter]

hi guys... here is my first attempt at Jupiter from 1st October @ 23:30.

[sengoksa]

Thats a realy good first Jupiter, was that with the skywatcher

Barlow if so even more impressive because they have a bad

rep as a peice of junk usually I no mine is lol.

[prbaxter]

Hi yes it was all with the original kit.

I processed the image in Photoshop to bring a little of the sharpness back out so this probably countered any issues caused by the barlow.

Could do with a higher mag barlow to be honest. Had a 5x before but it was too much for my scope and images were very poor.

[Clayton]

That's a great start!

[iamjulian]

Thanks for posting that. Nice image. But it also shows the two dark patches I saw visually the other night in one of the belts. Cheers!

[prbaxter]

yeah... between my first capture and last (about an hour), those 2 spots moved about a quarter across the face of the planet. It has such a fast rotation does Jupiter.

[bigal1]

Excellent first image looks like you got good focus and processing looks great

[prbaxter]

reprocessed with 2x drizzling:

[drewk1]

Looks great

[mallorcasaint]

These are my first goes at Jupiter. Seeing wasn't great and I'm not sure about my settings.

[Jannis]

reprocessed with 2x drizzling:

How do you drizzle planets like this? I've only been able to do it in DSS with stars, never planets.

I'd love to know as i've been looking for that fungtion for a good while. Both 2 and 3x drizzle.

Is it possible stright from an avi file? I normally use AVI stack, as registax haven't been too friendly with me...

Great pic, btw!

[Tassydevil]

Nice work.

[prbaxter]

How do you drizzle planets like this? I've only been able to do it in DSS with stars, never planets.

I'd love to know as i've been looking for that fungtion for a good while. Both 2 and 3x drizzle.

Is it possible stright from an avi file? I normally use AVI stack, as registax haven't been too friendly with me...

Great pic, btw!

Download the latest version of Registax, it is much better. I tend not to mess with the options much, but the drizzling basically gives me an image twice as large so it ideal for the VGA webcam output.

I think it's an option on the stacking tab. You just tick the box and leave the default setting of 0.5 and it works out well. Registax is much better than DSS for planet work.

Thanks for the feedback.